ot too long ago, the corporate media seemed interested in protecting Americans from potentially harmful medications, to the point of broadcasting fabricated stories about deadly ivermectin overdoses. Yet, with a different president in office, the media is now hard at work downplaying medication safety concerns brought up by the FDA. When it comes to acetaminophen, what can we believe?
To begin with, any medical professional who pretends not to understand the life-threatening dangers posed by Tylenol is lying to you. In my years spent training in the pediatric ICU, by far the most common — and most dangerous — overdoses we saw were of acetaminophen. If such ingestions are not treated very aggressively, with regular checking of blood Tylenol levels and continuous infusion of the liver-protecting antidote, serious injury and death can ensue. Every single ER and ICU doctor and nurse knows the Tylenol overdose protocol just as well as they know the stroke treatment or asthma attack protocols — these are common emergencies that medical staff regularly treat and train on.
Indeed, the data confirms Tylenol toxicity is the leading cause of acute liver failure in the country, while Tylenol overdoses cause tens of thousands of ER visits per annum, killing five hundred Americans yearly. That’s roughly 500 more Americans than are killed each year by ivermectin overdoses, by the way. So please, please think twice before posting reels of you downing acetaminophen in your handmaid outfits to stick it to bad orange man, ladies.
Does any of the above prove conclusively that Tylenol use in pregnancy is always dangerous? No. But think back to your or your loved one’s last pregnancy. Do you remember the long, long list of forbidden items? Pregnant moms aren’t even allowed to eat cold cuts, or medium rare steak. Why must expectant mothers chew shoe leather for 9 months? Have there been extensive randomized controlled studies of Swedish twins proving that second trimester salami is fatal? Of course not. But given that there’s a chance of undercooked meats carrying some germs, doctors play it safe and advise moms to avoid them. Now, consider that Tylenol kills significantly more people yearly than black forest ham — is it responsible for doctors to encourage pregnant moms to take it without good reason?
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