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...take Tylenol or other acetaminophen-based drugs for your headache, since they can prove toxic in combination with alcohol (or if you already have liver damage). Avoid taking other pain relievers, such as aspirin or ibuprofen, that will irritate the stomach lining even more, or at the very least, make sure they're buffered...
Folks who suffer from heart disease are often advised to take a daily aspirin to prevent future problems. Simple enough. But now, astonishingly, research suggests that more than 1 million patients aren't swallowing aspirin at all. Instead, they're taking Tylenol, Advil and other painkillers. That's bad. Aspirin works by preventing platelets from sticking together. Acetaminophen (Tylenol) has no effect whatsoever on platelets, and ibuprofen (Advil and others) helps unstick platelets, but only for short periods of time...
...synthetic products, such as Tylenol or aspirin," Tennant said. "I think that in the long run, you can be hurting your body by taking unnatural substances...
...kids are already lining up outside her office: one girl is there for iron pills to treat her anemia--a poor substitute, notes Buss, for what she really needs, which is a decent diet. Another has a bruised hand from a fight over the weekend; a boy wants Tylenol for a stomachache; she gives him baking soda and water...
Then last January, Leigh remembers sitting in algebra class and thinking: "Today is not a good day." That afternoon she swallowed 40 pills--20 aspirin and 20 Tylenol--and was hospitalized for eight days. After having clinical depression diagnosed, she was put on the antidepressant Effexor, among other medications. "Now, instead of the peaks and valleys," she says, "I just feel small waves of emotion. Things are a lot smoother...