My son's anoxic injury was caused by an accidental overdose. He was suffering from asthma for the past 3 months and he was abusing Xanax since he could not smoke pot. He went to Urgent Care for help with his asthma and they prescribed him codeine cough syrup. He took that that day and drank the rest of the small bottle the next morning. With Xanax already in his system & his lungs already in a compromised condition it was an extremely toxic cocktail. I don't know how long he was without oxygen completely because he doesn't live with me and I was not there. He was also doing asthma treatments and on steroids for his asthma. I don't believe he ever thought codeine cough syrup would do what it did to him, but like I said his overall respiratory health wasn't good at the time and when you mix benzoids with opiates they tell your lungs to go to sleep. He was in a coma for 10 days but didn't show responses to things until day 13-14.
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My son's anoxic injury was caused by an accidental overdose. He was suffering from asthma for the past 3 months and he was abusing Xanax since he could not smoke pot. He went to Urgent Care for help with his asthma and they prescribed him codeine cough syrup. He took that that day and drank the rest of the small bottle the next morning. With Xanax already in his system & his lungs already in a compromised condition it was an extremely toxic cocktail. I don't know how long he was without oxygen completely because he doesn't live with me and I was not there. He was also doing asthma treatments and on steroids for his asthma. I don't believe he ever thought codeine cough syrup would do what it did to him, but like I said his overall respiratory health wasn't good at the time and when you mix benzoids with opiates they tell your lungs to go to sleep. He was in a coma for 10 days but didn't show responses to things until day 13-14.
October 19, 2017 - 7:24pmThis Comment
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