I hope you're still reading this topic. What to you mean by "macular rashes"? Anything having to do with the eye? My aunt claims that after having her cataracts removed, she took Tylenol even though she told the doc she was allergic to it. She ended up blind in one eye.
Tylenol is not an NSAID. Ibuprofen is the most popular NSAID.
I have always been a large dose consumer of aspirin, acetaminophen, and ibuprofen. I am now 53 and I have an enlarged liver. And just very recently I have been breaking out in hives and body sores (legs). At first I though they were spider bites, but I now believe they are related to my heavy ingestion of acetaminophen and ibuprofen, as well as increasing age. I will now reduce my intake of these and switch to straight aspirin (I get headaches). We'll see how it works out. Doctors were also skeptical about both acetaminophen and ibuprofen as a cause for allergic reactions. Makes you wonder why since there is an allergy warning on the labels of both.
Paracetamol is Canadian. I was an American visiting Canada in 2007 and that is where I first heard of acetaminophen referred to as that.
I am almost 39 and I have been allergic to acetaminophen since I was 14. With each exposure, it get worse and now I cannot even be exposed to dust of tylenol, etc. I still have to explain my anaphylaxis response to it because a lot of doctors don't believe it.
These answers have all been very helpful. I have a grandson who lives in Central Asia. When he was 3 months old he developed a fever and was given paracetomol, after which he developed a rash all over his body. It was very scary. He is almost five months old now and again developed a fever after having been given a vaccination. This time we avoided the paracetomol----which I have now discovered is acetaminophen. But I am very worried about future reactions if he already showing allergic signs at this early of an age. He is strictly breast fed and as far as I know his mother eats a healthy diet and does not consume alcohol. I'm wondering if they should have benedryl or an epi-pen or something on hand. But doses are certainly a question. Doctors there don't understand English, though, so I am very concerned his health and safety.
My son recently had ankle surgery, 8 titanium screws and a metal plate. He had morphine, then dilautid while in hospital. then was put on hydrocodone, then norco. he had some sort of allergic reaction 16 days after surgery. this reaction included hives all over his body and mouth, eyes, and some throat swelling. he was given iv benadryl and steroids and sent home. less than 48 hours later he had another attack, worse with severe hives, body and face swelling, severe abdominal cramping and vomiting,light headedness and swollen airway, which caused him to be taken by EMTs to hospital. while enroute, he had to have epinephrine. he ended up in hospital for 2 1/2 days. can a reaction like this take that long to develop? we are all exrememly nervous right now, not knowing for sure why he had this severe reaction and to what for sure? he does have an appointment in a couple of days with an allergist/immunologist. has anyone ever experienced anything like this?
my husband has same symptom after taking tylenol. What do you do to avoild this?
Hi, I wonder that your enlarged liver has something to do with allergic. My husband has same allergic symptom, but the doctor hasn't figured out anything I affraid there's soemthing to do with this liver.
Oh yes. I have had severe allergic reactions (hives all over, tongue swelling) to Advil Liquigel (started at age 45) and generic aspirin (after taking any kind of pain reliever I wanted to my whole life with no problem - only once had a similar reaction after taking Tylenol w/codeine around age 32). I tried Tylenol, and at first it was fine, but after a few weeks I started having the same type reaction, only not as severe. I asked a pharmacist if there was anything else I could try and he suggested Alleve. I had the same reaction, not severe. Benedryl has always helped, takes about 24 hours to completely disappear. Luckily I took pictures of one incident that I can show if need be. But my doctor is skeptical and my current pharmacist all but called me a liar - said it's not possible and that made him suspicious. I told him I have a witness, but he still was rude and unbelieving. I'm sorry but I'm not an addict and I'm not a liar - it is possible because it happened to me. At least my doctor said maybe it could be a common binder. I know doctors are suspicious but they shouldn't lump everyone into the same category without even asking more detailed questions (like the pharmacist did).
I'm allergic to tylenol too. I had a kidney biopsy three days ago and was told that tylenol is the only at-home pain killer they recommend after the procedure, since the other over-the-counter pain killers will promote bleeding. I was told to take benedryl along with the tylenol to avoid breaking out in hives. Well, three days later, I am covered in itchy hives in spite of taking benedryl also. I hope they can figure out something better before I have the real surgery because benedryl with tylenol is not cutting it.
My 12 year old just developed an allergy to tylenol. Her troat gets dry and swollen right after taking tylenol. She wont stop caughing. I have to give her a cough drop to help. She use to take it a lot as child due to many ear infections as someone above mentioned also. The tylenol warning label say do not take if you are allergic to tylenol.
Tylenol gives me asthma that lasts for six weeks, sometimes it is life-threatening. It, also, gives me hives on my feet, and itching all over. I am 66 years old. It has been a couple of years since I figured out what was causing my chronic asthma!