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so the probably the most obvious one to start with is the one that's actually we use all the time in the hospital and it's for Tylenol overdose and that's because Tylenol uh the metabolism of Tylenol depletes the liver of these reducing agents glutathione things of that nature so um an acetal cysteine is going to replace that
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Let's just Let's just also pause for a moment and add that N-acetylcysteine is the treatment for Tylenol poisoning. Like, I used this so many times in residency and medical training when people would try and commit suicide with Tylenol, which is acetaminophen, which is broken down into the liver into very toxic oxidatively stressful quinones. And the way we get rid of those quinones is by pumping up giving the body lots of precursors to make glutathione. So, glutathione is three amino acids, one of which is cysteine. You you acetylate a cysteine at the at the nitrogen, you get N-acetylcysteine, which is NAC. And that is the bar none gold standard treatment for Tylenol toxicity in the hospital for patients.
anical cysteine is the drug of choice for the treatment of aopen Overdose it is thought to provide cysteine for glutathione synthesis and possibly to form an adduct directly with the toxic metabolite of acetam Menin