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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
Barmymoo:
Oh not 1g pills, two 0.5g pills. The leaflet says take one or two pills every three to four hours, not exceeding more than 8 pills.
bainidhe_dub:
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--- Quote from: Papersatan on 20 Sep 2014, 22:06 ---Even *Tylenol* calls it acetaminophen in the US.
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Well of course they do, being associated with the nonproprietary name is bad for their business!
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:? Acetaminophen is the nonproprietary name here, that's what we're saying.
jwhouk:
For you young'ns who weren't around in 1982: when Tylenol first came out as an alternative pain reliever to aspirin, it came in capsules. In 1982, some sicko in the greater Chicago area discovered he could inject the capsules with potassium cyanide. There were a ton of reported deaths, and Tylenol maker McNeil Laboratories had a huge PR problem with the safety of their brand.
What they did was twofold: they first put seals and tamper-resistant bands on their products; then, they changed the capsules to what they called "caplets" - the solid-bodied medications we see today.
Johnson & Johnson, who owned the Tylenol brand, went out of their way to promote the safety of the medication. That is what led (many years later) to the issues with OD'ing and liver shutdown side-effects.
Barmymoo:
Any medication is dangerous if taken in too large a quantity over too long a time. It's hardly the fault of the medication if people don't bother reading the leaflet that comes with it before taking any. I doubt there are many adults in the UK who don't know the correct dose for paracetamol.
BeoPuppy:
I plucked apples today. Due to a russian boycot apple growers can't get rid of them. Apple growers are advised to let the fruit rot on the tree. One grower decided to just open his doors for the public and let them pick at fifty cents a kilo.
I got twenty three kilo.
We were not alone, though. Couple of thousand people showed up.
It was amazing fun. Go pluck some apples!
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