from UK: SUN
A young mum battling what she thought was a lingering cold died after continually guzzling paracetamol pills and LEMPSIP (paracetamol+phenylephrine).
Fitness instructor Donna Bishop, 25, kept up her daily cocktail of over-the-counter remedies despite her GP diagnosing a chest infection.
The mum of one — who had caught a cold two weeks earlier — would wash the tablets down with the hot drink, an inquest heard yesterday.
LEMPSIP also contains paracetamol (650 mg)— and her health slowly deteriorated as she unwittingly overdosed on the painkiller.
A pal told how even when Donna, of Warndon Villages, Worcester, kept being sick she was convinced the remedies would help her — and took more. Days after her doctor put her on antibiotics Donna went to hospital complaining of mouth ulcers and difficulty swallowing.
She was prescribed co-codamol — which also contains paracetamol. Next day her sister found her woozy and jaundiced.
Donna went to hospital where a senior registrar advised tests, including one for paracetamol poisoning. She went home BEFORE having the tests, only to be re-admitted hallucinating hours later. Donna died of liver failure the same day.
A nurse told the inquest in Stourport-on-Severn how up until the end the mum denied taking paracetamol.
Donna's mum Nicky, 46, said after a coroner's narrative verdict that the paracetamol killed her: "It's horrible. I don't want other families to go through this."
