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minus-squareryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up27·1 year agoIf poison expires it becomes safer If medicine expires it becomes poison
minus-squaremoup@lemmy.worldBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoIf you wait long enough does poison expire and become medicine again tho?
minus-square3laws@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIf you wait long enough it’s no longer a matter of chemistry but of physics. It goes inert and/or it degrades to/along its container.
minus-squareWalterLatrans@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoIn the case of tetracycline antibiotics the degradation products can damage the kidneys and cause Fanconi syndrome. So in that case as a medicine for people it becomes poison, as a poison for bacteria it becomes safer.
minus-squarenovibe@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoNot necessarily. Aspirin yes, paracetamol no. Some medicine also just becomes less effective, not more dangerous.
minus-squareSquiglet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoSomeone hire this guy! Nobel material.
If poison expires it becomes safer
If medicine expires it becomes poison
If you wait long enough does poison expire and become medicine again tho?
If you wait long enough it’s no longer a matter of chemistry but of physics. It goes inert and/or it degrades to/along its container.
In the case of tetracycline antibiotics the degradation products can damage the kidneys and cause Fanconi syndrome. So in that case as a medicine for people it becomes poison, as a poison for bacteria it becomes safer.
Not necessarily.
Aspirin yes, paracetamol no.
Some medicine also just becomes less effective, not more dangerous.
Someone hire this guy! Nobel material.