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Hangover: Ok to take aspirin?

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TJN23

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I know you're not supposed to take tylenol. I have this pharmacy brand aspirin - ok to take?

last night:
pregame till 11 ---> bar till 2:30 ----> strip club till 5am = hangover city 🙁 :beer:
 
Originally posted by: tec699
One time I drank more beer when I had a hang over and it cured me!!

Try that?

:beer:
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you only are supposed to do that on spring break, where the next morning when hung over, you keep drinking...its times like that that really put your liver to the test :beer:
 
Nothing wrong with aspirin, though it's probably better to take paracetamol (tylenol).

Of course, what you really need is fluid - preferably isotonic fluid such as fruit juice.
 
Originally posted by: Mark R
Nothing wrong with aspirin, though it's probably better to take paracetamol (tylenol).

Of course, what you really need is fluid - preferably isotonic fluid such as fruit juice.
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Bad bad bad bad bad idea on the tylenol. Especially since he drank so much alcohol. If it contains acetaminophen, do not take it. You have a very real possibility of damaging your liver. One friend of mine after a night of heavy drinking popped 3 tylenols, wound up going to the hospital with severe liver damage.
 
Originally posted by: TJN23
yeah first time at a strip club in the U.S. - only been to other ones while studying abroad
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stripclubs are the best place to go to "study a broad"
 
The most current medical advice in the UK that I am aware of is that: having alcohol in your bloodstream does not make paracetamol/acetaminophen (tylenol) any more harmful then for an otherwise healthy person. Alcoholics who already have liver damage are at increased risk of developing liver failure after an overdose. I'm not aware of anyone ever getting liver failure from taking a normal dose of tylenol (unless they already had severe liver disease).

It may be that published advice in the US is not to take acetaminophen with alcohol, although it may be due to the high prevalence of alcoholism (estimated as between 5% and 10% of the population).

The problem with aspirin, is that it irritates the lining of the stomach, and can cause internal bleeding. Alcohol irritates the stomach, so the added irritation from the aspirin is undesirable.
 
Originally posted by: Mark R
The most current medical advice that I am aware of is that: having alcohol in your bloodstream does not make paracetamol/acetaminophen (tylenol) any more harmful then for an otherwise healthy person. Alcoholics who already have liver damage are at increased risk of developing liver failure after an overdose. I'm not aware of anyone ever getting liver failure from taking a normal dose of tylenol (unless they already had severe liver disease).

It may be that published advice in the US is not to take acetaminophen with alcohol, although it may be due to the high prevalence of alcoholism (estimated as between 5% and 10% of the population).

The problem with aspirin, is that it irritates the lining of the stomach, and can cause internal bleeding. Alcohol irritates the stomach, so the added irritation from the aspirin is undesirable.
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Uhh no.

Alcohol & tylenol is a deadly combo. You could drink once in your life and pop a couple extra strength tylenol and run a chance of seriously messing yourself up. You can also hurt yourself by exceding over a certain amount of tylenol a day for a sustained period of time...can't think of those off the top of my head. It's less than what you think though.

Tylenol and alcohol are metabolized by the same enzymes in the liver. If your liver is busy metabolizing alcohol then it can't take care of tylenol. The tylenol is then metabolized by a backup method that is very harmful to the liver. My wife could explain it better in a bit when she wakes up.

If you've been pounding the drinks for hours on end, you've got a good buildup of alcohol in you and your body could still be metabolizing it for hours after you stop drinking. You are still at risk at this time.

Tylenol is such a nasty drug, there's even a special drug out there that hospitals have on hand to give to people that have overdosed on tylenol.
 
I take a bowl hit of weed and the headache goes away. Going to munch out at Denni's afterwards is a good idea. Head back home, take a shower.... and everything goes back to normal 🙂

That's how I deal with it, hangovers suck!
 
Tylenol is such a nasty drug, there's even a special drug out there that hospitals have on hand to give to people that have overdosed on tylenol.
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There is no such thing as medical science anymore. It's all drugs.
 
I don't mean to give bad advice, but I have checked what I have written with 3 seperate medical texts.

Tylenol is generally safe at the doses stated on the packet (never more than 1 gram in 4 hours, and never more than 4 grams in 24 hours) - the exception is in people with liver disease.

It's been a while since I studied the toxicity mechanisms in detail, but I was under the impression that acute alcohol consumption actually interefered with the production of the toxic metabolite NAPQI, whereas chronic alcohol consumption increases production as well as reducing the reserves of liver's internal antidote (glutathione). (I might be wrong on this point - I welcome correction).

FWIW, I've checked the list of ingredients of a couple of popular OTC 'hangover remedies' available in the UK - both contain 1 g of paracetamol.
 
It's been a while since I studied the toxicity mechanisms in detail, but I was under the impression that acute alcohol consumption actually interefered with the production of the toxic metabolite NAPQI, whereas chronic alcohol consumption increases production as well as reducing the reserves of liver's internal antidote (glutathione). (I might be wrong on this point - I welcome correction).
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I'll have my wife respond when she gets up. She's the drug guru.

 
As long as you know you don't have any adverse reaction to asprin, it's the best. Of course, there's always the French cure for the migraine... the guillotine. :Q
 
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