What is the symptoms of taking an overdosage paracetemol on the liver?
Overdose paracatamol. Paracetamol is toxic to the liver in high doses and if you take overdose of paracetamol it can cause liver failure and can be fatal
it is known by name of acetamophen/tylenol in us
it is the most common cause of liver failure in us/uk.
May have no symptomsfor24 hours and than signs of liver failure develop, include low blood sugar, low blood ph, and hepatic coma and some will resolve/others end death.
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