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That’s a low intersection of medical situations where you have three days to live, but can be saved by an OTC treatment.

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I'm trying to think of a single one off-hand.

Possibly a very high fever or some sort of dehydrating bowel disease?

I guess you could call applying pressure to and binding a wound OTC, and you could possibly die if you simply choose not to do that?

Take the wound scenario. If you bandage it up but start getting a fever the next day then its a new symptom and it's better you see a doc

Best I have would be an allergic reaction (possibly with constant exposure where you just keep consuming the allergen). Suffering with increasingly restricted airways and not taking an antihistamine or epipen.

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