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[–] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

And too much water will cause you to dilute the electrolytes in your body so much that you can no longer command your heart to beat.

Anything is dangerous if you use it wrong enough.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yes but it's a lot easier to OD on acetaminophen than water. If a person with severe pain is tempted to take more than 1 Tylenol every 8 hours, that would be an overdose.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago

    For acetaminophen, there's fewer than 500 deaths per year of acute liver failure that they believe is linked to acetaminophen overdose, in the USA.

    For water poisoning, the only figure I could find is "a handful of deaths" per year in the USA. Seems that they don't really track that one very closely.

    Either way, we're taking about a fraction of a percentage of the population being affected each year. Last I checked the USA had about 335,000,000 people, so 500 people is around 0.000015% of the population? Or one in ~670,000 people are going to die from it.... per year.

    If we're going to split hairs over what's more likely or what's statistically possible, I wouldn't bet on either of these. I'm pretty sure you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning or winning the lotto, than being offed by either, less likely if you have an ounce of intelligence to look up the safe daily dose of anything....

    It's a dumb argument to make to say what's more likely. Ok, well, how about this, you're more likely to be hit and killed by a motor vehicle.

    It doesn't mean anything.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Acetaminophen is known to be liver toxic in very accessable doses.

    This does not necessarily lead to death, but does lead to a significantly reduced quality of life and lifespan.

    You're making a bad faith argument here, stop that bs.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    The number of people in the US who die from acetaminophen overdose in a year is anywhere from 500 to 100,000 (!) depending upon which source I use. That's what I got from a quick web search. While it's odd (and suspicious) that there's that wide of a range in the claimed mortality, the fact is that is still a lot more than the number of people who die from drinking too much water, which is so rare that it makes the news whenever it happens.

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