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Originally Posted by Megatron96
So I had to look this up.
Aspirin and alcohol is relatively safe. Aspirin can cause some stomach distress, if you take a lot of it and have had a lot to drink, otherwise the most you might expect is some nausea.
Tylenol is more 'scary,' but not really a big deal either. The issue is that your liver uses the same chemical compound to process both Tylenol and Alcohol. Complete depletion of that chemical compound can result in liver damage.
But we're talking about quite a lot of either alcohol or Tylenol. An adult can typically take as much as 4,000mg of Tylenol a day without harm. So you'd have to either take more Tylenol than that, or drink a large amount of alcohol and take a fairly large dose of Tylenol to create a situation that might be harmful to your liver.
So if you're not habitual about either taking Tylenol or drinking a lot of alcohol, taking a couple Tylenol after a single night of binge drinking shouldn't be a big deal.
Mystery solved.
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Alcohol and aspirin both have antiplatelet activity.
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