Fact, Fiction or Exaggeration of Fears

Think Michael Jackson & this rehashed-email making its recent rounds, serves as a wake-up call, despite unverified claims.
Comments on email content (chockful of grammatical errors), are reproduced at end of this post.
"Hi, this was forwarded to me by a friend, so thought it would be a good sharing.
DON'T TAKE PANADOL AND PANADOL ACTI FAST AND PANADOL SOLUBLE especially if you have gastric problems FYI...
One real story from a friend....My husband was working in a hospital as an IT engineer, as the hospital is planning to set up a database of its patient. And he knows some of the doctors quite well. The doctors used to tell him that whenever they have a headache, they are not willing to take PANADOL (PARACETMOL). In fact,they will turn to Chinese Herbal Medicine or find other alternatives. This is because Panadol is toxic to the body, and it harms the liver. According to the doctor, Panadol will reside in the body for at least 5 years.

There was an incident where an air stewardess consumes a lot of panadol during her menstrual as she needs to stand all the time. She's now in her early 30's, and she needs to wash her kidney (DIALYSIS) every month.

As said by the doctor that whenever we have a headache, that's because it is due to the electron/Ion imbalance in the brain. As an alternative solution to cope with this matter, they suggested that we buy 1 or 2 cans of isotonic drink ( eg.100PLUS), and mix it with drinking water according to a ratio of 1:1 or 1:2 (simply, it means one cup 100plus, one cup water.or 2 cups water). Me and my husband have tried this on several occasions, and it seems to work well.

Another method will be to submerge your feet in a basin of warm water so that it bring the blood pressure down from your throbbing head.).
As Panadol is a pain killer, the more Panadol you take, the lesser would be your threshold for pain (your endurance level for pain). We all will fall ill as we aged, for woman, we would need to go through childbirth. Imagine that we had spent our entire life popping quite a substantial amount of Panadol (Pain Killer) when you need to have a surgery or operation, you will need a much more amount of general anesthetic to numb your surgical pain than the average person who seldom or rarely takes Panadol . If you have a very high intake of Panadol throughout your life (Migraine, Menstrual cramps) it is very likely that normal general anesthetic will have no effects on you as your body is pumped full with panadol and your body is so used to pain killer that you would need a much stronger pain killer, Morphine ??

Value your life, THINK b4 you easily pop that familiar pill into your mouth again. Please send this to people you care about. "
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Respondents:
Hwee: wonder whether will this work,, any tester out there??
Mok : actually, i don't think it is true
Kit: This is a typical urban legend article. Mixture of fact, fiction and exaggeration of fears
Fact: Paracetamol does cause liver damage.
Exaggeration of fears: Never was it mentioned how many tablets was consumed by the stewardess within a duration of time. Now you have a nagging fear of even taking a single tablet. Hypothetically, if I’d say she’d taken 20 tablets within 24 hours, do you, now, have the fear of taking just one tablet?
Fiction : To suggest that headaches is only caused by ion imbalance in the brain is telling you that this author is imbalanced in his/her reasoning process . Maybe immersing the author’s head in a basin of warm isotonic drink would bring about some equilibrium.
And to the author: Bigger font size is used to capture attention or to make a point. Once it is done, please explain in further details, the point you are trying to make or the attention that you have diverted the reader to. Up until the end of the mail, 74 seconds and 467 words later, I’m still wondering what is the cause-effect relationship between “PANADOL AND PANADOL ACTI FAST AND PANADOL SOLUBLE” and “gastric problems”

Fined for Baring Breasts

Our public servants get (enjoy in case#2) an eyeful in the course of their work, if these 2 cases are anything to go by. And that's not forgetting the infamous a*STAR scholar's STARk-naked stroll down Holland V one late night with a STARk-naked Swedish boyfriend.

Weeks ago, 2 female Parks Officers made a Police Report following their encounter with a 50+ yr-old guy in a skimpy neon-green swimming trunk at East Coast Parkway. The jury is still out there on whether he had flouted any decency rule or how he could have offended the modesty of these officers.

The male officers in case#2 have it easier by virtue of their job scope & have no cause for complaint:-)
Case#2.
Source: Straits Times, July 14th
Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent

A WOMAN was fined $1,000 on Tuesday for exposing her breasts at a Chinatown nightclub.
Housewife Nguyen Manh Khuong, 26, pleaded guilty to committing the obscene act in a room at Hollywood Nite Club at Eu Tong Sen Street on Feb 11.

A police officer from Central police division had found her and Vietnamese Dinh Thi Diem Truong, 23, with their breasts fully exposed when he entered a KTV room while on licensing enforcement rounds with a party of officers.