How lethal is 13,000 mg of Acetaminophen taken at once seconds after each other?

Question

NO I AM NOT TRYING TO COMMIT SUICIDE! I just like to learn about this sort of ****. It's a hobby.

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

It all depends on your body chemistry. It can be or put you in critical condition. I do not suggest anybody should try it regardless of their size. All medications go through the liver, therefore a dose like that can put you in liver necrosis, which could put you through liver failure. Not a good thing to mess with. the last thing anybody needs is a liver transplant. You will die w/out one.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a681004.html#side-effects this is everything you need to know if you want to read further

Answer 2

Acetaminophen is absorbed very quickly and 13,000 mg or 13 g is an extreme amount considering an average dose is about 300mg. 13g would cause hepatic necrosis (cell death in the liver) although an amino acid containing sulfur could help decrease the severity of this. Also some dialysis of the blood could help.

Answer 3

It's in that dangerous but uncertain range, for an adult.
The level of overdose that's usually considered enough for treatment is 150 mg/kg body mass, but of course we want to treat any dose that's likely to cause hepatotoxity, not just those that will definitely be fatal. Certain lethality is probably somewhere above 500 mg/kg, but even that isn't known with any level of certainty. One can hardly do a dose-ranging study for the purpose of killing some of the volunteers.

Answer 4

If the dosing instructions said to not take more than 1000 mg in six hours and you took 1650 mg, you should treat it as an overdose and seek immediate medical attention. You could seriously damage your liver. And this could even be fatal too.

Answer 5

Pretty darn lethal, I would think. Acetominophen is actually a common cause of the need for liver transplants. In overdose, it is extremely toxic to the liver, and would cause a slow, horrible death, similar to the death caused by poisonous mushrooms. Certainly not the way I would want to go.

Answer 6

that's a very high dosage. 1 pill of acetaminophen is usually 325mg or 500mg. so thats like taking 26 pills (500 mg) or 40 pills (325mg).

Answer 7

Is this in a Medication? Over the Counter?

That much of most things is dangerous.

However, if this is something that's already been Manufactured for use, it will NOT be Lethal.

The reason is your body rejects the Additives they use. They even put something in on purpose so this and some similar things will make people vomit and their bodies reject the medication before it has time or the ablity to absorb into their bodies.

Answer 8

Sufficiently.