Us Autism Research Gets $50m Funding Boost – Amid Row Over Tylenol
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The US autism research receives a $50M funding boost amidst controversy over a study linking Tylenol use during pregnancy to autism, sparking debate among commenters about the study's validity and implications.
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I've joked that if you're an old person trapped in a nursing home, one strategy to get yourself out of there is by cheeking a bunch of tylenol until you have enough, then taking them all at once. 4000mg/day starts to damage the liver. 10,000 mg can lead to liver failure. A pharmacist told me that Tylenol-induced liver failure is not a very pleasant way to die.
There are 2016/2017 tweets by @Tylenol about how the drug shouldn't be used during pregnancy: https://x.com/tylenol/status/839196906702127106 https://x.com/tylenol/status/773897927420841985
This thread was started by someone who commented on how Eric Engstrom (the co-creator of DirectX) accidentally euthanized himself with Tylenol: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25424258
FDA: Acetaminophen one of the most dangerous drugs on the market, March 26, 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35309904
"[...] we can get away with things that we wouldn't be able to get away with nowadays. There's a lot of stuff that's like this; for instance, paracetamol/Tylenol would probably not be approved if it was introduced now because it's really easy to accidentally overdose on." August 6, 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4347943
A pregnant woman who ignores symptoms during pregnancy is putting the fetus at greater risk than one who follows her doctor's suggested treatment, which may include acetaminophen.
If you take two pills of extra strength Tylenol (2x500mg) every six hours as directed by the instructions, you’ve reached the threshold for liver injury.
Around 50,000 people a year (U.S.) visit the ER for having poisoned themselves with acetaminophen. A lot of people harm themselves without realizing it. I warned a friend about her Tylenol habit, which helped her connect “dizziness” to the Tylenol she’d just taken.
But the second line of the instructions is a limit of 6 pills per 24 hours.
> which helped her connect “dizziness” to the Tylenol she’d just taken.
Anecdotal bullshit
There is a row, and it's about something extremely different from liver failure.
And even if it wasn't about something different, you can have a row about a known problem.
Are the HN comments cautioning about Tylenol now invalid because President Trump shared the same sentiments?
Defending Tylenol seems like an odd hill to plant your flag on.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose
Aspirin and Caffeine are lethal, so are Capsaicin and water. What is your point?
That is putting it mildly. It is arguably one of the most painful ways to self delete.