Yeah that’s a good call, definitely don’t smash the ibuprofen, but I think one dose is generally pretty low risk, given I believe you still need to be overdosing on the ibuprofen to get problems, at least that’s what a doctor told me when I asked a number of years ago.
The thing with alcohol and paracetamol/acetaminophen is it causes your liver to do something different than if you had the two separately. I’m not 100% I’m getting the terminology exactly right here but, If alcohol is taking up all of the “usual” enzyme a less efficient enzyme processes the paracetamol that’s less efficient at metabolising it, that enzyme produces a toxic by-product that normally isn’t created. That toxic by-product is what causes the liver failure if it can’t subsequently be metabolised again quick enough.
Yeah that’s a good call, definitely don’t smash the ibuprofen, but I think one dose is generally pretty low risk, given I believe you still need to be overdosing on the ibuprofen to get problems, at least that’s what a doctor told me when I asked a number of years ago.
The thing with alcohol and paracetamol/acetaminophen is it causes your liver to do something different than if you had the two separately. I’m not 100% I’m getting the terminology exactly right here but, If alcohol is taking up all of the “usual” enzyme a less efficient enzyme processes the paracetamol that’s less efficient at metabolising it, that enzyme produces a toxic by-product that normally isn’t created. That toxic by-product is what causes the liver failure if it can’t subsequently be metabolised again quick enough.