Mikael Renwall says on social media that he unintentionally took an overdose of paracetamol.
Mikael Renwall has been seen, among other things, in the program “Survivors Suomi”. Pete Anikari
Social media influencer Mikael Renwall says that he had to be hospitalized due to an overdose of paracetamol.
Renwall tells at length in his Instagram update that he had a tonsil operation about a week ago.
– The healing was exactly what was warned about: painful, you can’t get anything down, you should resort to painkillers. I took this seriously, because with bad luck the complications can be nasty, Renwall writes.
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Renwall says that painkillers are typically a “last resort” for him. Now the doctor had given him a prescription for stronger drugs than he was used to.
– I already found “familiar and safe” strong buranos and panadol at home, which I thought I would use up first. When the pain got worse, I grabbed these guys every four hours, which you can also find on the pharmacy’s self-service shelf – of course, the over-the-counter ones would be half the concentration.
Renwall ended up unwittingly medicating himself with too high doses.
– Apparently six grams of paracetamol per day for several days is double what it should be, Renwall writes.
At her husband’s urging, Renwall called the poison control center, where she was immediately directed to the emergency room. In the emergency room, blood tests were taken from Renwall and he was started on both a stomach protection medicine and an antidote to paracetamol. Renwall’s throat was still bloody from the operation.
– The doctor sighed with relief: the blood values and liver were fine, but luckily I showed up. That amount is not far from serious liver damage, which in the worst case can take a person’s life.
– If I didn’t know, now I know and I hope that someone else will learn from my mistake: always read the instructions of the medicines and if you make a mistake, dare to ask for help. You can accidentally take too much of anything, even if the intention is good – in water, vitamins and trace elements, but especially in medicines, Renwall writes.
Renwall has shared pictures of himself in the hospital in his update. Plenty of encouraging comments have been left under the Instagram update.
– It’s wonderful that you say this out loud, because I’m sure that the exact same thing can happen to someone else! The most important thing is that you quickly got help for the situation and the best spouse when he gave the sos badges, a make-up artist and a drag artist Aarni Mikkola comment.
Renwall previously said in the stories of his Snapchat account that he took 800 milligrams of ibuprofen and 1000 milligrams of paracetamol about every four hours for his pain. Health Library according to the maximum dose of paracetamol for adults is 3000 milligrams per day.
Mikael Renwall has become famous initially through Youtube. Today, he has more than 80 thousand followers on his Instagram account and more than 176 thousand followers on his Tiktok account. Renwall has been seen, among other things Survivors Finland as a competitor of the program as well as Special forcesin the program.
Mikael Renwall wants to warn others about the dangers of paracetamol overdose. Timur Yilmaz
Paracetamol, or acetaminophen, is a pain and fever medicine, which is found in Panadol, among others. Pharmacist– website, paracetamol was the second best-selling self-medication in Finland in 2023.
Duodecim reported in 2023 that even almost every second liver injury related to the use of medicines has been caused by an overdose of paracetamol.
The symptoms of paracetamol poisoning are often mainly stomach symptoms. If there is liver damage, the symptoms may be nausea and pain in the right upper abdomen. High alcohol consumption and old age sensitize the liver to drug-induced liver damage.
If someone has accidentally taken too much paracetamol or a child has accidentally taken the medicine, call To the Poison Information Center (tel. 0800 147 111).