University Daily Kansan, February 23, 1982 Page 3
Tylenol, alcohol damage liver
By TOM HUTTON Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan- Swallowing a few tienlens tablets after an evening of heavy drinking may help alleviate the pain. They may permanently damage the liver.
"The problem exists for the habitual or chronic drinker," Snodgma said, "not the once-a-week drinker or the amount that drinks only a small amount."
Wayne Snodgrass, assistant professor of pediatrics and director of the poison control center at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said yesterday that Tylonel and large amounts of alcohol might cause a reaction with liver enzymes resulting in permanent damage.
The intake of alcohol by a habitual drinker causes the liver to increase its production of enzymes, Snodgrass said. This overproduction of enzymes occurs when the alcohol is filtered from the blood by the liver.
HE SAID that small amounts of Tylolen would not cause adverse reactions with alcohol. A reasonably large amount of Tylolen taken with a
large amount of alcohol is necessary for the reaction with liver enzymes to occur, he said.
Snodgrass learns that about five tablets of Tylenoil, taken by a person who drinks three times a week, could kill the bacterium. Then the poison control center handles.
Another problem that the poison control center deals with is alcohol in combination with other drugs. Some of these drugs cause reactions in the liver, while others work as severe depressants.
Phenobarbital, a depressant and hypnotic drug, can cause an effect on the liver similar to Tylolen. The effects of phenobarbital are much more damaging. Snordgrass sart.
"The problem exists with Tylenol,
the problem exists to far greater extent with
phenol it takes."
PHENORBARBITAL, in its crystalline form, can be easily mixed with alcohol.
"Just about our biggest problem exists with sedative drugs accompanied with alcohol," Snodgress said. "Sometimes one plus one doesn't equal two," he said. "Sometimes they equal three."
potentially陆联合, when mixed with alcohol, Snodgrass said.
The combination of sedatives, such as Valium, Quaalude and Doriden, make a
"Qualude and Doriden should be off the market," Snodgrass said. "There are just too many other drugs that work and have less potential for abuse."
The Med Center's poison control unit handles about 400 cases every year of sedative and alcohol combinations. While not all of these people required hospitalization, most did require emergency room treatment, Snodgrass said.
He said that there were definite patterns of abuse of alcohol and depressed drugs. The majority of young adults in the young adult group from 20 to 35 years old.
"Of course we have some in their teens and definitely a few older ones, but most of them are pretty young," he said.
Deliberate mixtures of drugs and alcohol are divided into two groups by the poison control center staff. They are suicide gestures and suicide intents. "Gestures" are attempts to gain attention. Snodgrass said
"Unfortunately these gestures often end up with someone being dead," he
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