Paul Saladino· MD
an n-acetyl cysteine is the treatment for tylenol poisoning like i use 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 to lots of precursors to make glutathione so glutathione is three amino acids one of which is cysteine you and you acetylate a cysteine at the at the nitrogen you get n-acetyl cysteine which is knack and that is the bar none gold standard treatment for tylenol toxicity in the hospital for patients