will it hurt you to take expired tylonol
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Doctor Yu
2007-11-8 19:09:11
Answers:
Tylenol past expiration will not harm you, but it might be sub-potent. The expiration date is not when medication goes bad, but it is 100 per cent potent at least to the expiration date. Tetracycline and its cousins (Doxycycline, etc) should NOT be taken past expiration. They can cause liver damage. Those are the only drugs which have adverse effects when expired.
It can kill you if you take it.
It might be fine, but it could make you sick or even kill you. Don't risk it.
no it just might not work as good
Depending on how long ago it has expired. The general answer is that it will probably not make you sick, but it might have lost its effect if you take it too long after the expiry date.
No. It might not work as good as it used to, but it won't hurt you in the proper dosage. If it hurt people after it expired, the FDA wouldn't allow it on the market.
If you are not trying to take 50 of them, you won't get hurt. But it is not going to work either. The real risk might be if you keep taking them in a short period of them because they don't seem to work.
Actually the maedicine in the tylenol has something in the medicine after a period of time that can make you really sick if u take it after its expiring date.
It probably won't hurt you but it might be less effective or not work at all. It's cheap so just buy some more.