Time to censure the social media suppliers

Do you have a caring side? 

It's just peddling for more draconian online laws and censorship over something some idiot may have said.  If you want to protect children then there are far better places to stick your nose in.  The indoctrination in schools is a good start.

As my departed mother used to say. If so-and-so wants go and run over a cliff are you going to follow him?

Some years ago before the current heart problems i was rushed into A&E with something seriously wrong

The registrar said he wanted to run a test to check it wasn’t a precursor to a full on heart attack but that meant waiting six hours in the unit. Surprised with my reaction ‘oh so you suspect cytoplasmic leakage into the plasma ?’ I has to fess up to being hoist etc as my old team invented this assay

Later that night he popped back and asked my opinion on his toxicology lecturer’s statement that the finest cure for paracetamol poisoning was two pints of vodka intravenous…. Surely the man is going nuts…

Well i said, draw up a chair. And i drew out the pathway the liver metabolised paracetamol metabolites. And proved there was one enzyme that ‘oxidised’ the drug by products and another that put the partial breakdown of a sugar molecule across the active site which stopped it.

The point is the oxidation pathway runs fast and creates a very toxic metabolite. The other path creates a near inert metabolite but that is a slow process. The trick then is to give the other process lots to do

The other process, the one that kills you, is run by alcohol dehydrogenase. Fill the bloodstream with not so much vodka, but a stiff tequila margharita, an alcohol solution in a weak physiological saline with a significant citric acid/sodium citrate buffer and a dash of potassium, and the liver is overloaded with booze and the lethal enzyme is overloaded by the need to oxidise the alcohol.

This only works once, twice if you are lucky , because severe alcohol dosing creates mire alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme on membranes inside the liver cells. Which is why a patient with any history of serious drinking can’t be saved this way. But tbe average drinker can be.

The patient will of course wake from the intravenous boozefest with the great grandmother and great grandfather of all hangovers … but with all that paracetamol swilling in them…. They’ll get over it

what freaks me out is the idea someone is encouraging people to OD on this stuff.

In case any reading this fail to grasp the consequences

You OD on paracetamol

It oxidises and the by product kills your liver

You come round, and think it is over

It is not. Your liver has been destroyed.

(Your liver is used to being abused. It is the most regenerative organ in you. It has a half life of about two weeks because it handles such toxic shit. But this stuff is way beyond. It kills the cells. It kills them so well you lose the regenerative powers

Then over the following months you go more and more yellow and orange.

And then your organs cannot handle the level of toxins not being removed as usual

Some months later, months you spend in agony, the agony ends when your heart stops.

Words fail me. There are no words that describe the level of violence i wish to enact on those promoting this. They must be force fed the product and then dissected alive in front of live cameras capturing the path taken to agonising death. Because it is at the end, irreversible, terminal, untreatable (save for transfusion) agonising death.

I hope to god (a figure of speech, i believe he is fiction) the perpetrator of this is utterly ignorant of the details. For the alternative doesn’t bear thinking about.

I doubt that somehow, some people will always have some influence over others it doesn't matter if they have the mind of a 5 year old. Others will have the same level of intelligence.