FDA panel: Lower maximum daily dose of Tylenol »
Posted By STONERS 4 months, 1 week ago in Health & FitnessGovernment experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet.
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STONERS4 months, 1 week ago
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"The Food and Drug Administration assembled 37 experts to recommend ways to reduce deadly overdoses with acetaminophen, which is the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S. and sends 56,000 people to the emergency room annually. About 200 die each year."
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quicksilver06024 months, 1 week ago
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"...the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S. and sends 56,000 people to the emergency room annually. About 200 die each year."
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Ahhh, the irony.
The toxicity of Tylenol and the like has long been known by medical professionals. As a matter of fact, many hospital ER doctors won't even prescribe it because they don't want to introduce it into their patients' medication "repertoire" because the potential for abuse is too high.
That said, all drugs are toxic at some level and one must take the time to read and follow ALL directions on the package and NEVER take anything with alcohol. The potential damage to one's liver with the combination of acetaminophen and alcohol is all but a sure thing...if not the first time, then the second , third, fourth, etc...whenever it occurs, it won't be worth the risk.
While the FDA has taken entirely too long to address this issue and health providers, for some reason, haven't made a point to inform their patients, the days of completely trusting one's own health with others are long gone...if they really even existed in the first place.
You have to be your own advocate...which means becoming as familiar as you can with both your condition and treatment - one doesn't need to be a genius to understand medicine.
That said, I understand Zgirl's concern (below) and I too wonder if it's really necessary to make it prescription-only. It's all about following directions and unfortunately, too many people choose to gamble with their own health by self-prescribing ..."if a larger dose didn't harm me the first time, it must be safe for me.." However, many drugs build up over time in the body, so for those who have this attitude toward medication, it's just a matter of time for many.
Sorry - sore subject. End of rant ;)
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orndorffter4 months, 1 week ago
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Good article STONERS, what about those who cant take anything else because other meds could cause more damage to them and some are only able to take the pain killers> like people with heart problems and some illness that cripple them they are unable to take the drip or asprin only baby asprin in heart pt's. They well find a way I hope because I seen to many people who can only take pain killers for their pain.
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If they give them a patch with pain medication not containing acetaminophen in it, still there is a risk with patches produsing more medicain obsorbed going into the skin with causes overdose. -
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zgirl19744 months, 1 week ago
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They want to make 1,000 mil of tylenol available only by prescription? So those people can accidentally overdose? This does not even make a lick of sense to me. How sad to think that because others abuse prescription drugs, like vicodin and percoset, that everyone else will. These drugs were made to help people, and yes, they are abused, but not by all. Just another way the government is trying to control what we do. So much for being "land of the free", eh?
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reallypsst4 months, 1 week ago
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Has anyone notice that the FDA is the most incompetent agency on the face of the planet,they are also corrupt in that every action comes years after the damage is done,they are certainly in bed with giant pharmaceutical companies and give these criminals time to make billions before releasing data on a product !
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