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Staggered Overdose meaning

The toxic dose of a medicine can be taken at once or it may be taken over a certain period of time, For example, it is possible that an individual takes the usual dose of a drug multiple times over the period of few hours.

A drug overdose is called staggered if all the tablets or capsules were not taken simultanously or within 1 hour.

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Sublingual Captopril (Capoten) is linked with major stroke and death. no longer recommended.

Previously sublingual captopril was given to lower blood pressure in the emergency room. But several cases of large cerebral stroke are reported and it is no longer used worldwide. But in developing countries and peripheral rural areas, it is still used by those physicians who don’t have the means to get the latest information, either electronically,

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