Health officials will discuss potentially limiting the total dosage of paracetamol in a packet following a student’s accidental fatal overdose. However, a Ministry of Health spokesman told Stuff the committee would discuss Spankie’s death and the coroner’s recommendations at one of its upcoming meetings. “The MCC has the ability to recommend limiting the total dosage of paracetamol per packet. Paracetamol should not be used with other paracetamol-containing products due to the risk of paracetamol overdose. Further information on paracetamol overdose is available at the NZ National Poisons Centre website.

Source: Stuff September 07, 2020 23:21 UTC