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6h. Order of the Doctors to Alert to the Danger of "the Challenge of Paracetamol" Which Is Virulerating on Social Networks
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We're talking about a competition where the intensity of several doses is boosted. Doctors are alert to risks that may be "fatal". Still, the US attack on Iran can happen on Saturday.
In this regard, it is called "the challenge of paracetamol", a competition between adolescents in which there is an incentive to take high doses of the drug, which can lead to liver failure, the need for intensive care and hepatic transplantation.
The alert was made to the Lusa agency by the coordinator of the Pediatric Emergency of the ULS Santa Maria, Erica Torres, after the Orders of Nurses and Doctors have called attention to the risks of the so-called “paracetamol challenge”, promoted in the social networks and encouraged the deliberate use of high doses of the drug. According to the pediatrician, most of the intoxicants are made with various drugs that young people have at home, but…
The virality of some social media challenges such as TikTok or Instagram has rekindled all the alarms. In Malaga, fourteen minors between the ages of 11 and 14 have been admitted with symptoms of severe poisoning due to the 'paracetamol challenge'. This dangerous challenge, consisting of a massive intake of medication to see who lasts longer in hospital, has revealed the vulnerability of young people to these phenomena. To analyze this, psychiat…
The College of Clinical Pharmacology and the College of Medical Pediatrics indicate that although paracetamol is safe at therapeutic doses, overdose may lead to liver failure, the need for intensive care and, in extreme cases, hepatic transplantation.
The Pharmacétics Order (OF) warned yesterday that the content circulating in the social networks to challenge young people to take high doses of paracetamol is "a serious risk to health". "Circulation in the social networks of content that stimulates the excessive intake of paracetamol is a serious risk to health", he highlighted the order in communication, pointing out that in this case the `problem of paracetamol' is a type of competition amon…
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