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I know we've talked about this before, but
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: louise van hine on July 23, 2008, 11:42:43 am ---actually acetaminophen is the compound name. Paracetamol is a brand name, and is the equivalent to Tylenol, which is the most common brand name for acetaminophen in the USA. In addition, Paracetamol gets compounded with codeine to produce other Paracetamol brands, just as they compound it with codeine in the US to produce Tylenol 3, which is acetaminophen with 8 grams of codeine.
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Louise....not 8 grams.
One Tylenol 3 tablet has 300 mg acetaminophen, 15 mg caffeine, and 30 mg codeine phosphate.
30 mg codeine = 0.03 gms (grams)
Even if you are thinking of the old-fashioned measurement system of grains, 30 mg is equal to 0.5 (1/2) grain. No where near 8.
L
ednbarby:
Tell you what. The sister of one of my coworkers swallowed a bunch of pills about 10 years ago - sedatives, painkillers (she'd been prescribed) and Tylenol. She was transported to the hospital (because she herself callled 911). They pumped her stomach. Did whatever it was they had to do to get the sedatives and painkillers out of her system. But it was the Tylenol - acetominaphen - that they could not clear. Her liver shut down because of it, and everything else followed.
He told me that about five years ago, and to this day, I swear by Motrin.
Front-Ranger:
Frankly, these legal drugs can kill you. I never take Tylenol, aspirin, or any of them.
louisev:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on July 23, 2008, 01:29:27 pm ---Louise....not 8 grams.
One Tylenol 3 tablet has 300 mg acetaminophen, 15 mg caffeine, and 30 mg codeine phosphate.
30 mg codeine = 0.03 gms (grams)
Even if you are thinking of the old-fashioned measurement system of grains, 30 mg is equal to 0.5 (1/2) grain. No where near 8.
L
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I definitely did not mean grams! I thought it was 8 mg.
Okay - just looked it up - acetominophen with codeine, OTC in Canada, can contain UP TO 8 mg. Anything over 8 mg has to be by prescription. That is where I got the figure! Thank goodness for Google!
Mandy21:
When I lived in Belfast for a year, I was quite shocked at the small sizes of OTC medicine, such as the paracetomol Fiona was mentioning above. I was also told by my fiance who I was living with, that you could only buy so much of it during any one transaction at the store. For instance, if you needed paracetomol, you had to buy it like 20 at a time. You couldn't buy 3 x 20 at one time at the checkout counter. So I guess you'd have to go in the store, buy 20, take them to your car, go back in the store, buy 20 more, etc., etc. When he came to America, and saw bottles of Tylenol on the shelves, with like 250 tablets in one bottle, he was blown away. I remember one Christmas, that's what I took over to give him as a present, so he wouldn't be bothered with continuously buying such small amounts. He probably still has that giant bottle to this day. Guess their rationing policy was done as a means to keep people from choosing to overdose, or overdosing accidentally. But I saw it as being wrong for consumer's rights. Stuff's always cheaper when you buy in bulk. Why not be given the choice?
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