The obvious question you ask as you are reading this article is, “what has the kid taken?”

Consequences

The patient is almost certainly going to die – he’s taken an overdose. The tablets he’s taken, and the way he’s taken them, mean that parts of his body will start to fail over the next few days. His immediate future is hospital bed, then an ITU bed, then either waiting for a transplant or death. It’s too late for any treatment to work on him.

He’s not in any pain, he doesn’t feel weak, he has no symptoms.

The answer is acetaminophen, the pain reliever that you find in Tylenol and many other OTC preparations.

The problem with acetaminophen is that if you take too much, it is highly toxic to your liver. The process takes several days, but without a liver, you are dead.

More info on toxicity: Toxicity, Acetaminophen

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