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Taking Paracetamol to relieve headaches after using alcohol is not recommended, because when having a headache after drinking alcohol, the active ingredients Paracetamol will double the harm to the liver, affecting the health of the drinker.
1. What is Paracetamol?
Paracetamol is an active ingredient that helps relieve pain and reduce fever. Therefore, Paracetamol is often used to treat symptoms of muscle pain, joint pain, toothache, headache, cold and fever... However, Paracetamol only relieves pain in some cases of mild inflammation, not inflammation. effective in severe inflammatory conditions.The usual dosage used is Paracetamol 500mg and recommended maximum dose is 1g/time and 4g (4000mg)/day for adults. Because if you use too much Paracetamol as prescribed, it will cause serious effects to the body of the person using the drug.
However, in fact, there are many drugs containing the active ingredient Paracetamol, so if you combine them together, the user has overdosed. Therefore, to prevent overdose of Paracetamol, before using any medicine, read carefully the ingredients in the medicine to see if it contains Paracetamol or not.
2. Why should Paracetamol not be used to relieve alcohol headaches?
After drinking alcohol, whether drinking less or more headache symptoms will appear. The main cause of alcohol-related headaches is that alcohol contains histamine, which at the same time promotes the immune system to produce more of this chemical and thereby inflammatory reactions throughout the body in alcohol drinkers. increase. In addition, ethanol is the main ingredient in alcohol, once this chemical has entered the body, it will immediately turn into a trigger for alcohol-related headache symptoms.
When suffering from alcohol headaches, users are often very uncomfortable, just wanting to relieve these headache symptoms. However, due to ignorance as well as subjectivity, drinkers often go to pharmacies to buy typical headache relievers like Paracetamol to use. But this is a wrong thing to do, very dangerous to your health.
Why taking Paracetamol relieves headaches after using dangerous alcohol, because when drinking alcohol causes headaches, the active ingredients Paracetamol will double the harm to the liver of the drinker. The liver is the organ that removes toxins from the body, so when drinking alcohol, the enzyme system in the liver cells will metabolize alcohol, converting alcohol through a series of chemical reactions to finally produce CO2 and water.
However, the liver's capacity is limited, so if you drink too much alcohol as well as the pain reliever ingredient Paracetamol, there will be a risk of high liver enzymes, acute or chronic liver necrosis if abused. Therefore, people who drink alcohol regularly, just taking Paracetamol in normal doses can damage the liver.
Sử dụng Paracetamol sau khi uống rượu có thể gây tình trạng men gan cao
3. What to do when having a headache after drinking alcohol?
After having a headache caused by alcohol, do not take paracetamol to relieve headache, but instead apply some headache relief methods recommended by doctors such as:
Drink lots of water, especially lemon juice to supplement Vitamin C and electrolytes, limit the impact of alcohol on the nerves, thereby, reducing headaches caused by alcohol. Vomiting to quickly eliminate large amounts of alcohol from the body. Eat thin and hot foods to add sodium and potassium salts to help the body recover faster. However, prevention is better than cure, the best way to reduce alcohol headaches is to limit alcohol consumption to maintain health and make time for daily exercise.
Not only causing headaches, regular drinking also affects liver and stomach functions. Therefore, we should limit alcohol consumption and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
In case you are addicted to alcohol or are suffering from health problems caused by alcohol, it is best to see your doctor to discuss and find a treatment as soon as possible.
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