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by _wesley_ 4922 days ago
This was a very interesting article, given that I just experienced something similar.

Flight from SFO -> IAD last week. As soon as we took off, they asked for a doctor. He spent 2 hours treating the patient before they started drink service, and continued until we landed. We were all quite worried about the person, but found out at the end of the flight that they had overdosed on NyQuil. That made the whole ordeal fairly frustrating.

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Overdosed on NyQuil? How much NyQuil did he take?

I have no idea how big a typical bottle of NyQuil is, but assuming it's somewhere in the ballpark of 10oz (we'll call it 300ml to make the math easy). NyQuil has 325mg/15ml, so our hypothetical 10oz bottle has ~6,500mg in it. That's certainly a respectable dose of Tylenol, but it's not likely to be fatal in a couple hours for an average sized adult...

I'd guess that the problem was excessive sedation due to the antihistamine, rather than acute liver injury from acetaminophen toxicity.