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Acetaminophen should be treated with more caution in general. So many people have reacted with shock and upset when I told them that taking Tylenol (or anything with acetaminophen in it like Dayquil/Nyquil) while drinking can cause immediate liver damage.

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>reacted with shock and upset when I told them that taking Tylenol (or anything with acetaminophen in it like Dayquil/Nyquil) while drinking can cause immediate liver damage.

Maybe your package needs to be clearer but here in Sweden it says to avoid taking with alcohol.

Or people cannot read anymore?

Most people grew up taking Tylenol as kids for various things and it was never a new medicine to them that they felt the need to read. Also, there's a huge difference between "don't take this with alcohol, it will make you more drowsy" and "even one beer with this will start fucking your liver up don't even think about it". I think people associate the latter with more intense medication than some OTC mild pain meds.

Indeed.

I like beer quite a lot and have for a very long time, so acetaminophen is banned from my medicine cabinet.

Seems like the logical thing to ban from your stomach for the time periods you need acetaminophen is the beer, unless I'm missing something.

For a lot of us, Ibuprofen works just as well or better than Acetaminophen, so banning Acetaminophen is not much of a problem.

I am on a medication that's contraindicated with NSAIDs, but I made sure that a low dose of Ibuprofen was acceptable.

Ibuprofen is hard on the kidneys and stomach too. And bleeding/clotting issues.

Sooo ya :)

Better just stay off the beer hubby.

Remember, beer makes you fat also.

Wow, that's a really weird tone for a hackernews comment.

It's really not. HN turns into the most scolding, puritanical Mormon when it comes to the topic of alcohol.

I just don't like the fatties getting uppity because they managed to get ozempic.

This place is basically reddit now

Reddit loves beer bro

The narwal bacons!!

You don't know us, nor the scale of anything we do in our lives.

But thanks for the input, sweetlips!

Alcoholism, you're missing alcoholism.

No.

Even in the absence of beer, I'm not choosing acetaminophen. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.

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