Antipyretic drugs when used in excess of permitted doses may cause undesirable consequences such as severe liver damage, poisoning, emergency room recuperation, etc.
Abuse of fever-reducing medicines can cause liver problems.
Poisoning, liver damage due to abuse of antipyretics
According to information from Bach Mai Hospital, recently the Poison Control Center of Bach Mai Hospital (Hanoi) has just received a young male patient (from Son La) in a state of liver damage, hepatitis, signs of liver failure. Previously, the patient had overdosed of paracetamol (taking 19 antipyretic tablets in 2 days), with a history of hepatitis B, the condition became more severe.
This case is currently causing people to be extremely confused because everyone has used antipyretics, especially when antipyretics paracetamol is sold freely like many other medicines. Many people take their drugs arbitrarily without even knowing the consequences.
It can be said that everyone has at least a few times sick, fever in life. Therefore, when we have a fever, we often find different ways to treat the disease. Using medicine to reduce fever is one of the fastest and most convenient solutions. Therefore, many people find themselves with fever and buy a few paracetamol tablets to resolve the fever quickly, the next day can go to work as usual. The role of these antipyretics is, of course, undeniable. But once you drink too much, typically in the case of the young man, it is possible that the fever will not go away, but it will cause the loss of money.
Using medicine to reduce fever is one of the fastest and most convenient solutions.
According to information from NCBI (part of the US National Library of Medicine, and an agency of the National Institutes of Health), paracetamol contains the active ingredient acetaminophen that can cause side effects. unexpected. The side effects that often occur when using antipyretics containing active ingredient acetaminophen are very rare, such as black or bloody stools, cloudy urine, dark yellow, fever accompanied by chills, back pain. lower or lower flanks, red spots appear on the skin, skin rash, itchy skin, sore throat, white sores in the mouth, sudden decrease in urine, bleeding or bruising, unusual tiredness , ailing body, eyes or yellow skin than usual.
If you use Paracetamol in excess of the allowed dosage, you will experience symptoms such as diarrhea, people sweating, not eating well, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, swelling in the abdomen, stomach, ... For People with liver disease, overdose also cause liver damage, liver failure, ...
If you use Paracetamol in excess of the allowed dosage, you will experience symptoms such as diarrhea, people sweating, not eating well, nausea and vomiting ...
Experts warn against antibiotics, health risks if arbitrary use of drugs, including antipyretics
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Tien Dung (Former Head of Pediatrics Department, Bach Mai Hospital) affirmed: "The use of paracetamol antipyretics, even for adults or children, should be in the right dosage, avoiding unfortunate consequences. Many people think that the use of antipyretic drugs as much as possible helps to reduce fever quickly is very wrong, ignorant. drug, is the cause of the current widespread antibiotic resistance ".
The expert said that taking any medicine would need to follow a fixed dosage. If you are not sure, you definitely need to consult the doctors to avoid causing unfortunate consequences.
The expert said that taking any medicine would need to follow a fixed dosage.
Currently, antipyretic and analgesic drugs are used very commonly. There are hundreds of drugs containing the active ingredient acetaminophen. Paracetamol antipyretic drugs are available in many dosage forms, tablets with regular tablets, film-coated tablets, chewable tablets, effervescent tablets, powder, granules, suppositories, syrup forms ... with different content such as: 80 mg, 150 mg, 250 mg to 500 mg. Failure to pay attention to the drug content is easy to cause poisoning. Even in case of high fever, you are not allowed to use more medicine. Instead, antipyretics should be used according to the doctor's prescription in combination with drinking plenty of fluids, eating well, applying heat ... If the fever does not help, the patient should be taken to the hospital for examination, find out the cause and timely treatment.
An overdose of the drug is also a cause of antibiotic resistance. Even if the fever is not clear, if the fever is caused by a virus, then medication is the cause of antibiotic resistance. Therefore, do not abuse the medicine under any circumstances to avoid unfortunate long-term consequences but need to take it according to the instructions, indications and control of your doctor.
If you take more than the dose of antipyretic drugs or have the above signs, you should find ways to handle and go to the hospital promptly, especially in severe cases.
