• TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.ml
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    To me Macrophages are the single most interesting creatures(symbiotes?) in the human body. I’ve read so much about them yet know so little.

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    8 months ago

    Having a fever I can deal with, but I will immediately take some meds to not have a headache. Unfortunately, usually a fever comes with a headache.:(

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    8 months ago

    Ibuprofen does not reduce a fever, it reduces inflammation. Tylenol would have made this meme work

    Edit: I was wrong

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      The first sentence on ibuprofens wikipedia page under “Medical uses”:

      Ibuprofen is used primarily to treat fever

      Anti-inflammatories reduce fevers, are there even anti-inflammatories that don’t have that effect to some extent?

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        8 months ago

        So I was about to correct you that Tylenol is actually acetaminophen; turns out paracetamol is just another name for the same chemical. TIL

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        Paracetamol is not anti-inflammatory in any serious context, which is to say taking paracetamol to reduce actual inflammation (think gout or rheumatoid arthritis) is more or less useless. From the wikipedia article on paracetamol:

        Paracetamol inhibits prostaglandin synthesis by reducing the active form of COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes. This occurs only when the concentration of arachidonic acid and peroxides is low. Under these conditions, COX-2 is the predominant form of cyclooxygenase, which explains the apparent COX-2 selectivity of paracetamol. Under the conditions of inflammation, the concentration of peroxides is high, which counteracts the reducing effect of paracetamol. Accordingly, the anti-inflammatory action of paracetamol is slight.

        It is, however, an analgesic.

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        8 months ago

        I’ll be damned, I was almost certain it wasn’t an antipyretic, but it looks like I was wrong. Thanks for correcting me.

        You didn’t need to use such condescending language though, there was no need to be rude.

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          Apologies. I do think making it sting a little when correcting someone on something they should have double checked, is warranted, if for no other reason than to make it clear to others reading which take to go home with.

          But in response to your edit I’ve softened my correction as well.

        • Ya_Boy_Skinny_Penis@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          When you post wrong information online you’re responsible for perpetuating idiocy. Someone who had better things to do had to go out of their way, waste their time, to correct you.

          Think before you post.

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            I made a mistake on a public forum, I was corrected, then I edited my post to acknowledge my mistake.

            Your comment suggests that no one should ever make a mistake. Your comment is an insult to the very nature of human behavior, that mistakes are an inevitably, and should be embraced and understood.

            Your comment is insulting and naive, and shows your lack of development beyond a typical teenage cynic. For your sake, I genuinely hope you’re in your teenage years, because otherwise the likelihood of you developing into an empathetic functioning adult isn’t great.

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              You can try to minimize your stupidity, but spreading blatant, easily-researched misinformation is way more than an innocent mistake."

              The fact that you feel compelled to make excuses for something you just never should have typed in the first place (embrace your stupid, unnecessary lie? Are you serious?)

              What we need to teach people is that they don’t need to chime in to online conversations with unsolicited lies.

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        Aspirin is bad for your liver as well, especially for kids. It disrupts the electron transport chain in the Krebs cycle which leads to fatty acids not being converted and since they don’t belong into the mitochondria, they are expunged into small deposits in the liver. It’s called microvesicular steatosis, or more commonly called fat liver.

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          My understanding is that ibuprofen is processed in the kidneys, and if Tylenol was up for FDA approval today it would go down in flames due to safety concerns

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        Ibuprofen (or NSAIDs in general) is bad for the liver as well and worse for the kidneys.

        Edit: confused kidneys and liver.