I've Taken Too Much Paracetamol.

[Barsel]

When I was at the shops earlier, I bought some Sudafed Mucus Relief Day & Night. When I got in I had a headache so took 2 Paracetamol 500mg each. I then had a bite to eat and took 2 Sudafed without reading the instructions fully, and now I've read it properly it says each capsule contains 500mg of Paracetamol so that's 2000mg altogether.Will I be ok? x

[Daffy6543]

You are allowed up to 2000 mg in 24 hours. Don't have any more and you should be ok.

[andy-hughes]

Yes, you'll be fine - just don't take any more for twenty-four hours to allow them to pass through.

[Jackdaw33]

You should be fine. You can take up to 4000 mg per day safely, not all at the same time of course.

[AlwaysConfused]

I can't see that causing any harm, but check out this website if you are worried
http://www.drugs.com/paracetamol.html
If you are still worried call 111 (nhs line)

[Barsel]

I was going to take the night time one possibly about midnight. Do you think it best that I don't? x

[Samuraisan]

Christ, I wouldn't

[Sqad]

\\\\I was going to take the night time one possibly about midnight. Do you think it best that I don't? x\\

If you want , then take another Paracetamol.

I would take Ibuprofen tonight........but that is just me....;-)

[andres]

I would contact your doctor or local pharmacist for medical advice on this .

[alavahalf]

Nothing to worry about ... I have been advised to take up to 4000mg of Paracetomol along with 400mg of Tramadol every 24hours.
That sounds a lot until you see the rest of the painkillers and anti -inflamatories I am currently on at the moment.
Needless too say ... I am in no pain.
I'd guess you have taken half of what I have been prescribed and the only side effects I get, is being a bit light headed.

[Peter Pedant]

yes you will - be OK

You should feel better

I go for six g a day so as Sqad [ hi sqad - thx for yr input ] comments you could take a bit more at midnight

it is hard to poison yourself with less than twenty tabs and you have just scored four which in the scheme of things is peanuts

[Peter Pedant]

andres
I would contact your doctor or local pharmacist for medical advice on this .

he doesnt have to, he has contacted S

[anneasquith]

do you have any liver or kidney problems ?

[andres]

PP---What's wrong with a second opinion?

[Peter Pedant]

or third or fourth or fifth [opinions]

nothing at all and people often do it.

Actually it was a little injoke Andres
I tend to pick one doctor and go with it -I think the results are generally better.

[Sqad]

PP

\\\\\I tend to pick one doctor and go with it -I think the results are generally better. \\\\

LOL.....in the "old days" of medicine, there was always a popular saying in the medical fraternity........" the more the doctors the bigger the *** up"

Things have changed dramatically, it would appear.

[andres]

PP---Point taken.

[Barsel]

Thanks for all your advice. I would only contact the doc if I felt ill, so I will just put this down to a mistake in not reading the instructions first. If I take 1 paracetamol at bedtime, that would have the same amount as 1 Night time Sudafed so I'll do that as I'm desperate to get rid of lingering mucous which I think is probably what is giving me the headaches. x

[Barsel]

In reply to Ann, not that I know of and I never drink alcohol so all should be well. x

[Peter Pedant]

Hi Sqad I see your sense of humour is intact today

I prefer - they shook their head and took their fees and said - there is no cure for this disease
[ from Henry King who used to eat bits of string ]

A patient said to a doctor - you have said I have an ulcer - I want a second opinion
and my brother who was medical student in the seventies actually heard his teacher say - .... OK you've got gall bladder disease....

completely forbidden nowadays - hem hem - disgusting

[Sqad]

PP.

Yes, i am glad that i did medicine when i did, it was a romantic and hero worshiping time , as you Dad would have concurred. There were characters galore who made medicine a living science with the patient the important person. I learned more at meetings at the RSM (Royal Society of Medicine) and travelling "Clubs" than i ever did reading medical papers in the BMJ and Lancet. At one time in those journals, the had at the back pages "Personal communications" ..anecdotal evidence and a colleague to whom one could phone for advice........or even for a chat.

Now, medicine has been confined to "links" "websites" "one liners" with the individual patient lost in the effluent of the www and "cat lines."

I have had a wonderful professional life but do wonder about the future of medicine for the patient.