Posted on 07/28/2011 1:43:08 PM PDT by EBH
Johnson & Johnson said Thursday that it's reducing the maximum daily dose of its Extra Strength Tylenol pain reliever to lower risk of accidental overdose from acetaminophen, its active ingredient and the top cause of liver failure.
The company's McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division said the change affects Extra Strength Tylenol sold in the U.S. -- one of many products in short supply in stores due to a string of recalls.
Starting sometime this fall, labels on Extra Strength Tylenol packages will now list the maximum daily dose as six pills, or a total of 3,000 milligrams, down from eight pills a day, or 4,000 milligrams. Beginning next year, McNeil will also reduce the maximum daily dose for its Regular Strength Tylenol and other adult pain relievers containing acetaminophen, the most widely used pain killer in the country.
Besides Tylenol, acetaminophen is the active ingredient in the prescription painkillers Percocet and Vicodin and in some nonprescription pain relievers, including NyQuil and some Sudafed products. It's found in thousands of medicines taken for headaches, fever, sore throats and chronic pain.
But people taking multiple medicines at once don't always realize how much acetaminophen they are ingesting, partly because prescription drug labels often list it under the abbreviation "APAP."
Two years ago, a panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration called for sweeping restrictions to prevent accidental fatal overdoses of acetaminophen.
Then in January, the FDA said it would cap the amount of acetaminophen in Vicodin, Percocet and other prescription pain killers at 325 milligrams per capsule -- just under half the 700 milligram maximum of some products on the market then. The agency also said it was working with pharmacies and other medical groups to develop standard labeling for acetaminophen.
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Go ahead FDA and keep screwing with it until we have to go the streets to get the “good stuff”. Apparently nobody in the FDA has rheumatoid arthritis.
Reducing dosages is part of Codex Alimentarius.
Aspirin is much better for you anyway!
See Dr. Ray Peat:
http://raypeat.com/articles/aging/aspirin-brain-cancer.shtml
When the pain hits Codex Maximus supercedes Codex Alimentarius.
This is very strange. I am having a pain (muscular, stress-related). I RARELY take any tylenol or any type of OTC meds (no prescription meds either). So I took 2 tylenol about 4 hours ago, was just now googling to see whether I could take more yet (the print on the bottle is too small to see). And this thread came up. Looks like I am okay for today.
Well now you know to be aware of mixing other medications with tylenol can cause an overdose.
And I don’t ever believe in coincidence.
Sorry about that.
I’ve paid attention to Codex seriously since 2007. There was a narrowly-defeated bill to adopt Codex in 2008.
Here’s a snippet of what Codex wants to do:
“4) Codex: Serious Threat to Health and Health Freedom
If Codex Alimentarius is implemented in the United States of America, therapeutic dosages of vitamins and minerals (and all other nutrients soon to follow) will become unavailable because they will literally become illegal.
Here’s how it would work, in a nut-shell:
Due to the junk science use of Risk Assessment (toxicology) to assess supposedly toxic nutrients, a false belief is being engineered saying that “nutritional supplements are dangerous to people’s health”.
Using this false belief generates calls to “protect” people from these “toxic” nutrients. After the calls come the bills to set ultra low permissible dosages (remember, nutrients are deemed “dangerous toxins” under this false belief). If enough of us and our Congressional delegates buy this nonsense, we and Congress would blindly comply with Codex Alimentarius’ VMG. And blind compliance is what the industries behind Codex Alimentarius intend.”
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=157
Last week were the articles on walnuts being ‘drugs,’ at least Diamond walnuts. Now, Tylenol.
That’s OK. I consider 4 tablets to be a dose, to repeat no more often than every 2-3 hours.
Oh wait - that’s for Motrin! Tylenol is for pansies...if I took it for headaches, my headache would double down in revenge for the insult.
I’m with the FDA on this one.
A family member spent two days in the ICU due to an accidental Tylenol overdose and narrowly escaped a liver transplant.
The stuff is ludicrously easy to overdose on, yet its supposed safety is the cornerstone of J&J’s marketing for it. Which lulls people into thinking an extra dose won’t hurt them. Wrong. Dead wrong.
>> mixing other medications with tylenol can cause an overdose <<
Yes, if those other medications are metabolized by the liver. That’s why it can be so dangerous to take Tylenol at the same time as you drink alcohol.
But for a chemical that’s metabolized by the kidneys, like ibuprofen, it’s generally safe to take “reasonable doses” at the same time as Tylenol.
Interesting. No, the more active ingredients in these two PRESCRIPTION painkillers are oxycodone and hydrocodone, respectively.
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