A few months ago, the Food and Drugs of the United States (FDA) issued a warning of many paregoric (painkiller) that are sold free and contain paracetamol, can be dangerous because of potential liver damage.

Paracetamol is a popular analgesic medication used to relieve shortness of breath, fever, or mild pain. Previous recommendations by the FDA safe dose of paracetamol consumption not more than 4000 mg in 24 hours for adults and children aged above 12 years.

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Unfortunately because of the drugs including paracetamol easily obtained, overdoses of drugs either deliberately or not often happened. For example, the person with arthritis or painful joints that easily overdoses experience when he consume arthritis drugs every 4 or 6 hours of pain remover plus other drugs containing paracetamol and are usually sold freely. Painful joints such as tylenol drugs containing 325 mg paracetamol and 500 mg for the type of extra strong.

For many years consumers feel secure in choosing paracetamol drugs as a pain abating agent. With different types of painkiller ibuprofen or asetosal (acetylsalicylate acid), paracetamol does not cause inflammation. Therefore, this drug is often considered to be safe.

But the fact, recent studies show high doses in the paracetamol can cause liver damage, even death.

To avoid to the side effects, the lower the dose the FDA safe paracetamol, ie, 3250 mg for adults (some experts believe this dose is still too high) and not to dose more than 650 mg.

In addition, because the combination of paracetamol and alcohol can poison the liver, the person who consume more than three glass of alcoholic drinks is recommended to reduce the paracetamol feed than usual dose.

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Consumers are also expected cautious possible over dose because consume some types of medication containing paracetamol at the same time to reduce symptoms such as fever, headache, sore menstruation, or influenza.