Paracetamol (branded as Tylenol, Calpol and Panadol among others) – how useful is it really?

By Baldmichael Theresoluteprotector’sson

Well, to start with it is a big pharma drug. I used to think it was of some use but you had to be careful. I have had it mainly in something like Lemsip.

Now I look at paracetamol and see it contains nitrogen, I am now highly suspicious as it is clearly neuro-toxic, which as a pain reliever is all it is.

It tends to be used for colds and ‘flu, allegedly to help you feel better, and maybe lower your temperature in the case of ‘flu.

So is it really of any use or are there other factors at play? Let’s see what Wikipedia says. Text in italics unless otherwise stated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol

In the short term, paracetamol is safe and effective when used as directed.

‘Safe and effective’ reminds me of the vaccine cultists’ mantra.

with brand names including Tylenol and Panadol among others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paracetamol_brand_names

And note Calpol given to children, hmm…

Medical uses

• Fever

Paracetamol is a drug of choice for reducing fever.

Yet its benefits are unclear.

In addition, when used for the common cold, paracetamol may relieve a stuffed or runny nose, but not other cold symptoms such as a sore throat, malaise, sneezing, or cough; however, these data are of poor quality.

Indeed, it seems that it may be of negligible use, if any.

For patients in critical care, paracetamol decreased body temperature by only 0.2–0.3 °C more than control interventions; there was no difference in mortality.[15] It did not change the outcome in febrile patients with stroke.

The results are contradictory for paracetamol use in sepsis: higher mortality, lower mortality, and no change in mortality were all reported.

Paracetamol offered no benefit in the treatment of dengue fever and was accompanied by a higher rate of liver enzyme elevation: a sign of a potential liver damage.

Overall, there is no support for a routine administration of antipyretic (temperature reducing) drugs, including paracetamol, to hospitalized patients with fever and infection.

As regards children the benefits are unclear.

The efficacy of paracetamol in children with fever is unclear. Paracetamol should not be used solely with the aim of reducing body temperature; however, it may be considered for children with fever who appear distressed.

Perhaps one should consider something else rather than poisoning them then.

It does not prevent febrile seizures and should not be used for that purpose. It appears that 0.2 °C decrease of the body temperature in children after a standard dose of paracetamol is of questionable value, particularly in emergency situations.

I would have thought 0.2 ^oC was pretty pointless in any event, assuming lowering the temperature is actually necessary.

Fever: suppress or let it ride?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4703655/

The above article is interesting but takes an evolutionary theory stance at the end which is foolish, albeit sensibly concluding that a more permissive approach to fever is occurring.

It really should be very obvious that neurotoxic drugs merely add additional nitrogen ions/free radicals which the body doesn’t need. The body is already poisoned by such things and is trying to eliminate them and needs plenty of clean water to help flush them out as part of the detoxification process.

Here’s the Nursing Times.

I think it a sensible article. The drugs like paracetamol only interfere with the immune system, suppressing its workings by the imparted neurotoxicity of the drugs.

Here’s another.

A child’s fever: you have to treat the discomfort instead of worrying about the numbers on the thermometer

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-07-22/a-childs-fever-you-have-to-treat-the-discomfort-instead-of-worrying-about-the-numbers-on-the-thermometer.html

Now it still references viral and as there are no infectious ‘germs’ this can mislead, but the advice is better than the ‘take the pill’ which big pharma and many mainstream medics would have you believe.

I note this comment from Paula Vázquez López, president of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Emergencies (SEUP).

“I’m old and I remember how, in the past, every time I got vaccinated as a child, [the doctors would tell my parents]: in case she gets a fever, give her [paracetamol] to prevent it. But it’s now clear that this wasn’t correct.”

and

According to Juan Carlos Molina – a pediatrician in the emergency department of the Niño Jesús Children’s Hospital, also in Madrid…

… At one point does a problem arise? As Molina explains, temperatures above 105°F are more dangerous, especially if they are maintained. “But in these cases, there’s talk of hyperthermia… in children, it’s very rare. It [usually] occurs due to significant exposure to the sun, such as heat stroke, or poisoning from certain medications,” the pediatrician clarifies.

I note poisoning from medications. So why burden a child let alone an adult with more poisons from paracetamol.

• Pain

Paracetamol is considered useful for mild to moderate pain relief such as headache, muscle aches, minor arthritis pain, toothache as well as pain caused by cold, flu, sprains, and dysmenorrhea (period/menstrual cramps).

The evidence for chronic pain relief is insufficient.

However, has anybody asked what the medications are taken with? Does anybody take them without liquid? I doubt it. In any event they will drink something eventually so if someone thinks it was the pill that helped them, why on earth should that be the case.

We are after all made up of 75-80% water, so maintaining the water balance is critical. We know that people can survive for 40 days or so without food but only a few days without water, depending on the circumstances.

How Long Can the Average Person Survive Without Water?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-can-the-average/

How long can you survive without water?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201016-why-we-cant-survive-without-water

• Musculoskeletal pain

The benefits of paracetamol in musculoskeletal conditions, such as osteoarthritis and backache, are uncertain.

It appears to provide only small and not clinically important benefits in osteoarthritis.

And

For people taking it regularly, monitoring for liver toxicity is required.

And

Paracetamol is ineffective for acute low back pain. No randomized clinical trials evaluated its use for chronic or radicular back pain, and the evidence in favor of paracetamol is lacking.

So looks like a waste of time there. No surprises.

• Headaches

Paracetamol is effective for acute migraine: 39% of people experience pain relief at one hour compared with 20% in the control group.

Is that all? Again if they took it with water who’s to say what caused the relief after one hour.

I see that the German, Austrian, and Swiss headache societies and the German Society of Neurology recommend a combination of aspirin, paracetamol and caffeine. I looked up the German Migraine and Headache Society.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Migr%C3%A4ne-_und_Kopfschmerzgesellschaft

It says in the English translation

The sponsors also include pharmaceutical companies, currently ( as of 2020 ) for example Allergan Pharma, Bayer Pharma, Hormosan Pharma, Lilly, Novartis, Reckitt Benckiser, Sanofi and Teva. It cannot be ruled out that these companies will exert direct influence on society or indirectly on its members, who are often also in conflict of interest.

It’s all a con. Vested interests pushing poisonous drugs. Results stretched to justify sales to a gullible public.

• Other pain

Paracetamol fails to relieve procedural pain in newborn babies.

Why on earth someone would think giving poison to anyone is a good idea, let alone a new born child beats me.

Adverse effects

Gastrointestinal adverse effects such as nausea and abdominal pain are common, and their frequency is similar to that of ibuprofen.

And

According to the US Food and Drug Administration, the drug may cause rare and possibly fatal skin reactions

And

However, the abnormal liver function tests (meaning there was some inflammation or damage to the liver) were almost four times more likely in those on paracetamol, although the clinical importance of this effect is uncertain.

Liver problems are common with neurotoxic drugs. The liver has to deal with toxins, it is what it is there for, to help you live.

But it doesn’t need to be poisoned with additional chemicals added unnecessarily.

Due to the absence of controlled studies, most of the information about the long-term safety of paracetamol comes from observational studies.

This is big pharma all over, smoke and mirrors, massaging the statistics to suit its goal of more sales and more profits.

Paracetamol is particularly dangerous to the liver in overdose, but even without overdose those who take this drug may develop acute liver failure requiring liver transplantation more frequently than the users of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

Paracetamol is nasty and worse than nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. But that doesn’t make the latter good. The Wikipedia link says of them

Side effects depend on the specific drug, its dose and duration of use, but largely include an increased risk of gastrointestinal ulcers and bleeds, heart attack, and kidney disease.

Continuing

The association between paracetamol use and asthma in children has been a matter of controversy. However, the most recent research suggests that there is no association, and that the frequency of asthma exacerbations in children after paracetamol is the same as after another frequently used pain killer ibuprofen.

So some children suffer asthma issues after paracetamol and ibuprofen. Why should one be surprised, neurotoxicity will do this.

• Use in pregnancy

Paracetamol safety in pregnancy has been under increased scrutiny. There appears to be no link between paracetamol use in the first trimester and adverse pregnancy outcomes or birth defects.

However, indications exist of a possible increase of asthma and developmental and reproductive disorders in the offspring of women with prolonged use of paracetamol during pregnancy.

Again unsurprising.

Paracetamol, in a small scale meta-analysis was also associated with 20–30% increase in autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, hyperactivity symptoms, and conduct disorder, with the association being lower in a meta-analysis where a larger demographic was used, but it is unclear whether this is a causal relationship and there was potential bias in the findings.

There is also an argument that the large number, consistency, and the robust designs of the studies provide a strong evidence in favor of paracetamol causing the increased risk of these neurodevelopmental disorders.

Again, this is what one should expect, neurotoxic drugs cause neurodevelopmental disorders. If your nerves are interrupted/damaged it is like an engineer telling the operative what to do but leaving out bits of information, the end result is a flawed item.

In a child it is might be mental issues, what gets called autism, epilepsy perhaps and physical defects etc.

Overdose

Paracetamol toxicity is the foremost cause of acute liver failure in the Western world, and accounts for most drug overdoses in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.

Paracetamol overdose results in more calls to poison control centers in the US than overdose of any other pharmacological substance.

According to the FDA, in the United States, “56,000 emergency room visits, 26,000 hospitalizations, and 458 deaths per year [were] related to acetaminophen-associated overdoses during the 1990s. Within these estimates, unintentional acetaminophen overdose accounted for nearly 25% of the emergency department visits, 10% of the hospitalizations, and 25% of the deaths.”

So look at the damage this one drug is doing. Think too of the costs to society.

But it makes money for big pharma who can then treat the overdose with another drug.

Treatment is aimed at removing the paracetamol from the body and replenishing glutathione.

Glutathione is an anti-oxidant synthesised in the liver.

The article references the drug acetylcysteine which apparently “…acts as a precursor for glutathione, helping the body regenerate enough to prevent or at least decrease the possible damage to the liver;”

So create a problem with one drug and resolve it hopefully with another.

But of course it has side effects too, so big pharma can keep going with the drug gravy train.

Until it sends you to the grave of course.

History

You can look this up but it appears like so many drugs to be a German invention back in the 1800’s. It was found in its first incarnation to have unacceptable toxic effects.

It was replaced by phenacetin, another neurotoxic drug.

The sales of phenacetin established Bayer as a leading pharmaceutical company.

You may remember what Bayer has got up to over the years, including selling heroin.

It was then ‘rediscovered’ or ‘rehabilitated’ after WWII.

Concerns about paracetamol’s safety delayed its widespread acceptance until the 1970s.

Which might be compared to the rollout of the COVID 19 vaccines pushed out insanely ignoring the side effects.

But sadly necessary as it has opened up the eyes of many, myself included, just now nasty (and Nazi) are these drugs and vaccines.

Veterinary use

Paracetamol is very toxic for cats.

Dogs can suffer liver damage from it so it doesn’t seem much better.

Snakes can be killed by it. Perhaps it would be effective in removing the big pharma serpent from our midst.

Dehydration

I have indicated how our bodies are made primarily of water. Here is an article regarding headaches caused by lack of it.

How to recognize a dehydration headache

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317511#causes

There is a list of symptoms which I won’t repeat, but no doubt one would need to be aware that symptoms can be confusing. Doctors frequently confuse them which is why their diagnoses are often flawed.

Headaches can be due to something else but one should consider dehydration first.

Indeed, all pain is warning you that something is wrong or that the body is trying to heal and needs help. An input of clean water may be all it takes, although our body does need other things that get called electrolytes.

I have referred elsewhere to how our body is an electrochemical system, a wet chemical system like a traditional car battery.

If the correct balance is not maintained then the electrical signals will be hindered or possibly even accelerated.

But neurotoxic drugs are suppressors and hinder the signals. I have said earlier but the nitrogen in the drugs adds to negative ions, free radicals which cause injury to the body when they exceed essential levels for normal nerve function.

I have indicated at the beginning that it assumed in trials and by users and medics etc. that the drug is what is helping relieve the symptoms but it ignores how most drugs are taken as pills which need water or other suitable fluid.

Here is advice on How to Take Tylenol

https://www.drugwatch.com/drugs/tylenol/how-to-take/

Taking Tylenol with a glass of water or milk alleviates most concerns regarding gut irritation and its absorption into the bloodstream.

Of course in powder form liquid is essential.

Lemsip

As I have referenced this at the start I thought I had better expand a little. Firstly it is in powder form and contains things other than just paracetamol.

It is also made by Reckitt, and whilst this might be merely amusing, as it sound like ‘wreck it’ it doesn’t fill one with confidence.

This gives some information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemsip

It seems obvious to me that as one must take it with hot water that again the liquid is doing the business as it were. I have just double checked the ingredients apart from paracetamol and phenylephrine hydrochloride. Here they are.

 Caster sugar,

Pulverised sucrose,

Citric acid anhydrous,

Sodium citrate,

Lemon flavour no.1,

Aspartame,

Ascorbic acid,

Saccharin sodium and

Curcumin WD (curcumin (E100), Lactose, Polysorbate 80 (E433) and Silica (E551)).

From

https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/medicine/23317

What now alarms me is the Aspartame, a known neurotoxic substance and polysorbate 80, used in vaccines. At least the latter is only going via the stomach but still…

We have a box of Lemsip sachets here at home and indeed having checked the side it refers to Aspartame (in the small print of course).

Another good reason to avoid something like Lemsip (other brands are available and to be avoided!).

Summary and final thoughts

There you are, a common drug with the usual side effects and harms. People take it thinking it is giving them some relief but not asking if the liquid they take with it is actually what is relieving the symptoms.

Our bodies are substantially made up of water and that should be the first thought when we get headaches or pain. Drink clean, untainted water to rebalance your system and see how that goes.

And avoid poisoning yourselves with any paracetamol or other big pharma drugs.

Look out for the sign of Baldmichael, he will be back!

P.S.  More on pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceuticals: What’s in them?

And on vaccines if you have yet to see it.

What is the ‘flu a.k.a Covid 19 and why vaccines are pointless at best.