Monday, November 28, 2011

Warning about the hidden danger of overdose of paracetamol

Warning about the hidden danger of overdose of paracetamol
Researchers cautioned David H. Seymour and company Fotolia and the Department of First Aid that an overdose of analgesic paracetamol has the risk of hidden, and also warned that taking paracetamol frequently, and more too it with the passage of time can lead to overdose is difficult to control, and may display person to the risk of death.

 
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Paracetamol is a painkiller used widely and easily available without prescription in pharmacies, shops and other places.


If a person takes a large amount at one time can be dangerous - that were not fatal - are trained medical personnel immediately to recognize the symptoms of overdose, which are a common form of suicide attempt.



 
Now, the researchers found that people who eat a lot of Bastmrarakulail medicine on every occasion it is possible to expose themselves to risk them without showing any symptoms as a criterion for an overdose of paracetamol.


Researchers at the University of Edinburgh in the Scottish Liver Transplant Unit, more than 650 cases of patients admitted to the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh infected liver damage caused by paracetamol in the past 16 years.


Taken from 160 patients between those of paracetamol at different stages as it overdose, usually to reduce the set of common aches and pains, such as headache, toothache or pain in the muscles.



 
Head of the study, Dr. Kenneth Simpson that in such cases, it "Atakhz the result of a single moment, for once, but high doses are taken by people who attempt suicide are clear, but with the passage of time, the damage accumulates, and the effect can be fatal" .



 
"The doctors found when entering these patients to the hospital they took an overdose and were more likely to have problems in the liver and brain, where they needed dialysis or help them to breathe and they are at greater risk of death compared with people who have taken an overdose and the only one."


For doctors working in the emergency department, the problem here is that they have been trained to assess the patient's condition by taking a blood sample and see how the presence of paracetamol. In case of overdose, this one helps doctors, but when people take too much over a period of time may be to have low levels of the drug in the blood even though they are at a high level of risk of kidney failure and death.


Dr. Simpson said, "people who take overdoses or patients who seek treatment late after overdose need to be closely monitored, and given anti-paracetamol, and N - acetyl, regardless of the concentration of paracetamol in the blood."


Calls for the study, published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, further work to find new ways to assess whether it can send the patient home, or that he needed medical treatment against Alpracejtamol, or needs to be seen in a liver transplant.


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