Tylenol overdose?

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treatment

Answer 1

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If it more than 800 mg in a 24 hour period you need to immediately get to the ER asap.. they can infuse charlcoal to prevent the body from absorbing most of it and or pump the stomach. Over dose is a serious matter ... You need to add how much was taken.

Answer 2

Beyond throwing them up, there is no treatment. Drink as much water as you can stand and keep it up for as many hours as you can. The damage to your liver and kidney's is what you are risking by not going to the hospital, depending on how many you took. Process as much water through your body as you can as fast as you can. Good luck!!!

Answer 3

In an emergency, it is relatively safe to induce vomiting to keep it from being absorbed, although this has fallen out of favor when compared to swallowing activated charcoal. However, most of us don't have activated charcoal lying around, and few people keep syrup of ipecac these days, so your best bet is still to go to the emergency room. Curiously, there is actually a inhaled medication for cystic fibrosis that, when injected, seems to prevent tylenol from damaging the liver, but this usually only done if there are already signs of liver damage.

For non-emergencies, like "oh good grief, I didn't know these were extra-strength!" you can usually relax. Doses as high as 4000 mg are usually harmless, except for those with other liver problems. Still, call your physician or go to the ER if there is any doubt.

Answer 4

Acetaminophen (TYlenol) must be treated at the Hospital.
In a 70 kg. adult, the toxic dose will affect the LIVER (not the kidneys) at doses around 5-7 grams, vomiting is a good idea, however, avoid using the house remedies such as warm salted water (avoid the risk of sodium intoxication)
At hospital. a good IV line must be set up, and replentish by the drpi or by mouth the reserves of reduce gluthatione in your liver. by taking oral solution of N-Acethyl cYsteine (amplues dissolved in some seweet liquid)
What are you doing at home?
You are wasting valuable, precious time....

Answer 5

How much did you take?

If you took 4 pills instead of 2, you'll be okay.

If you are talking half a bottle or something, you have problems. You need to get to an ER. You will be given 50 grams of activated charcoal and told to drink it. If you refuse to drink it, it will be given by force. You will be restrained and a nasogastric tube will be inserted. I advise you to drink it. It's better than having a tube threaded up your nose and down your esophagus into your stomach. The charcoal will take effect within 30 minutes or so. It might cause vomiting but usually, it comes out the other end. Plan on spending the night in the bathroom. If you drink the charcoal and vomit it up, you will have to drink more. Charcoal binds to substances in your stomach and prevents absorption and passes it through your system as quickly as possible.

Tylenol has a way of rapidly building up to toxic levels in the liver. People ultimately die from liver failure. It is a painful, ugly way to die. It's not fast either. I've seen people live for a few days...in unimagineable pain, on a ventilator, with multiple IVs, strapped to bed in ICU.

I know I make the treatment for acetominophen overdose sound bad. But you know what? That's what really happens. I've seen it done time and again.

Answer 6

there is no treatment. i friend just recently had a tylenol overdose and she was put into the hospital and was under suicidal watch for 5 days. it all depends on how much u took.

Answer 7

Acitophetomin is the main ingreedient in tylenol. Too much over long periods of time can damage the liver, but my guess is that if you didn't take more than about 3 times the reg. dose, it should pass and be cleaned out by your liver. I am no doctor, so you might want to call your primary care physician to ask about this. Make sure to tell him/her how much you took, so he can (this is a little gross) see if he has to pump your stomach. Also call a poison controll center, because they may be able to clarify.

Answer 8

The hospital treatment is a dose of mucomyst.

At home, force the person to vomit, then call 911, then make them drink water.

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I am a nurse