Pancreatitis and Acute Liver Failure From Coricidin® HBP Intoxication

The use of over-the-counter medications as recreational drugs of abuse in adolescents is increasing. We present the case of a patient who presented with abdominal pain after the ingestion of Coricidin®, an over-the-counter cold medication that contains acetaminophen, chlorpheniramine maleate, and de...

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Autores principales: Medows, Marsha, Acosta, Catalina, Vega, Vivian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7532876/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33033679
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10202
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description The use of over-the-counter medications as recreational drugs of abuse in adolescents is increasing. We present the case of a patient who presented with abdominal pain after the ingestion of Coricidin®, an over-the-counter cold medication that contains acetaminophen, chlorpheniramine maleate, and dextromethorphan hydrobromide. The case was complicated by acute liver failure and concomitant pancreatitis that, in a few reported cases, has been associated with high doses of acetaminophen.
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spelling pubmed-75328762020-10-07 Pancreatitis and Acute Liver Failure From Coricidin® HBP Intoxication Medows, Marsha Acosta, Catalina Vega, Vivian Cureus Emergency Medicine The use of over-the-counter medications as recreational drugs of abuse in adolescents is increasing. We present the case of a patient who presented with abdominal pain after the ingestion of Coricidin®, an over-the-counter cold medication that contains acetaminophen, chlorpheniramine maleate, and dextromethorphan hydrobromide. The case was complicated by acute liver failure and concomitant pancreatitis that, in a few reported cases, has been associated with high doses of acetaminophen. Cureus 2020-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7532876/ /pubmed/33033679 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10202 Text en Copyright © 2020, Medows et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Pancreatitis and Acute Liver Failure From Coricidin® HBP Intoxication
title Pancreatitis and Acute Liver Failure From Coricidin® HBP Intoxication
title_full Pancreatitis and Acute Liver Failure From Coricidin® HBP Intoxication
title_fullStr Pancreatitis and Acute Liver Failure From Coricidin® HBP Intoxication
title_full_unstemmed Pancreatitis and Acute Liver Failure From Coricidin® HBP Intoxication
title_short Pancreatitis and Acute Liver Failure From Coricidin® HBP Intoxication
title_sort pancreatitis and acute liver failure from coricidin® hbp intoxication
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7532876/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33033679
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