Thursday, July 23, 2015

How paracetamol killed 17-year-old girl after complaining of stomach ache


Teenage hair salon worker Georgia Littlewood (pictured) died after she accidentally overdosed on paracetamol tablets having complained that she was ill with a stomach ache
A teenage hair salon worker died after she accidentally overdosed on paracetamol tablets having complained that she was ill with a stomach ache, and inquest heard today. 

Georgia Littlewood, 17, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, died of liver failure after apparently taking as many as three times the recommended dose of painkillers. 
The teenager had called in sick to the hairdressers where she worked at weekends as office clerk, on the morning of March 28, and was rushed to hospital in the early hours of the following morning after vomiting during the night.
She told doctors she had taken paracetamol, and although she was put down for a liver transplant her condition deteriorated and doctors were unable to reverse the damage done to the organ. 


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3170957/Hair-salon-worker-17-accidentally-killed-taking-triple-recommended-dose-paracetamol-complaining-stomach-ache.html#ixzz3ginxUlDW



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