Is Tylenol bad for your stomach lining?

Answer 1

It all depends upon who is taking it. For some it isn't bad at all. For others it can be very bad. I know this from experience. I am missionary in Africa and I began taking an aspirin a day for blood pressure. My father has done this for years. I didn't realize that my mother can't handle it and I have the same problems as her. I began to feel bad and it got worse and worse as the weeks went on. After a few weeks and almost passing out twice, I began to study my symptoms. I was bleeding internally for weeks. I went to the doctor and the aspirin had created bleeding stomach ulcers. It also thins your blood, so they were bleeding good. Two nights later, I passed out at midnight while trying to go to the restroom and began to vomit blood. I was in the hospital for 6 days.

Many doctors told me that lots of people take aspirin with no problem but there are lots of people who shouldn't take it. So is it bad? Depends upon the person. I have since met a lot of people who have had similar problems to that which I had.

Answer 2

Now in my opinion, aspirin is made for adults. But lids can usually take 1/2 to a whole. I recommend not giving a child more then that. Overall aspirin is a good pain reliever and should be nesscasery. So what I'm trying to say is it isn't bad for you.

Answer 3

It will eat throught the lining and cause an ulcer or hole in the lining.

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The solubility of a salicylate, such as aspirin, in fat depends on the acidity of the medium in which it is dissolved.

Aspirin is a slightly acidic drug. It has a pKa of 3.5. This means in an environment with a pH of 3.5 there is an equal amount of ionized and non-ionized molecules.

In the stomach where the pH is around 1.0, its carboxyl group (COOH) is un-ionized at a ratio of about 1 ionized molecule for every 100 non-ionized. The non-ionized molecule can readily pass through the lipid cell wall of the mucosa and into the cell.

Once inside the cell, the pH is closer to 7.0. In a neutral solution, the hydrogen is removed from its carboxyl group (COOH) so that the group is left with a negative charge (COO-) at a ratio of ionized to non-ionized molecules around 1,000:1. In that state the molecule is relatively insoluble in fat; consequently it does not as readily pass through the cell wall so it builds up within the mucosal cells. This can be toxic for the cell and cause injury or cell death resulting in damage to the mucosal layer of the stomach.

Answer 4

Because it's asprin!!

Answer 5

it depends on your stomach

Answer 6

No.