One Man's Pill Is Another Cat's Poison--And Marijuana's Link To Tylenol

Tylenol easily kills cats. Within an animal, there is more chemistry than we can imagine. When all goes well, there is an impression of overall harmony, but all it takes is an encounter between a foreign substance and lower concentration of one or two key ingredients and/or a little quirk in molecular structure, and all hell breaks loose for what was a perfectly healthy animal.After they have served their purpose, drugs in the body are often broken down into other molecules, and then they are excreted. In acetaminophen's (Tylenol's active ingredient) case, animals get rid of a combination of unmetabolized acetaminophen and breakdown products. read more

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