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People look up resources on them and see that the recommended max dose of ibuprofen is lower than paracetamol per day in weight of the active ingredient and stop reading.

They don't get to the part about how the effect per weight isn't the same. Or how damaging paracetamol can be for the liver if you take it regularly or go over the recommend limit. Heavy drinkers especially don't take into account the extra stress on their liver, which is a contributor to the 400-500 deaths it causes every year in the US alone.

Meanwhile ibuprofen makes you feel sick and want to vomit once you start to go over the recommended limit. And if you reach that stage, you basically just stay hydrated to keep your kidneys going and wait for it to pass. Since it usually takes another 2-3 times as much to for the severe effects to occur.

To quote Scrubs:

Dr. Cox: Did you just page me to ask me how much ibuprofen to give Mrs. Lenzner here?

Sunny: Well, I was worried it would exacerbate the patient's

Dr. Cox: It's ibuprofen! Here's what you do. When she wakes up, get her to open her mouth nice and wide, then get some of those ibuprofen pills in your hands and throw them at her. Whatever sticks in there, that's the correct dosage.

The fact that the drug companies lied about the addictiveness of their product so doctors were handing them out like candy didn't help.

Yes it is. I have had, over my 40 years as migraineuse (they started in my teens) 5 intractable migraines. Meaning less than once every 5 years I get one that lasts days, I cannot eat or drink, just puke. I used to be able to go to my doctor and get shot up with opiates and Phenergan, so much of it, they would do one dose, come back later, another, another, another, until finally I would say "it still hurts but I don't care" and go home nodding like a junkie, sleep and wake up with no headache, and, importantly, NO desire for more drugs.

Now the opiates are not allowed because they didn't work. But nothing works on the status migraine. Now they give you a cold cocktail IV of some sort of Advil and nausea medicine and it doesn't work either, and costs $2,000 because it can only be done in the emergency room not the doctor office.

It's adding insult to injury. There has to be some way to make these available for acute situations at least.

We have never had good pain management here. Claiming babies can't feel pain, black people hace higher pain tolerance, etc etc. then we swung into really permissive use with oxycodone for a while.

paracetamol packet

It looks like it's a sheet of 6-8 pills

https://www.nps.org.au/news/paracetamol-ibuprofen-combinations-for-acute-pain

I think in UK paracetamol is sold over the counter in 28 x 500mg tablets most commonly. Larger packs or higher strengths are prescription only I think.

So 1 pack should last 3.5 days at the max adult dose of 8 per 24h - but I think it'd recommend seeing your doctor if you get into a second pack and you're still using that maximum dosage.

Generally shops will limit sales to 2 packs, but it's easy to shop around so that's no limit.

Yeah, how long until this idiot cooks this liver too?

Honestly, getting a liver transplant in a week is the most unbelievable part of this story.

I think the problem here is the word "packet" and what that means here exactly. Would be much more clear if they listed the amount of mg, or at the very least, how many pills are in a "packet"

I'm like 99% sure they took way more than just 4 Tylenol.

325mg APAP x4 will not kill you short term.

Yeah I'm p sure the daily maximum on the package is 4k

I'm kind of pissed that such obvious and preventable idiocy leads to an almost immediate liver transplant.

Yes, that's just a lucky coincidence for him, but still...