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Original Source: Pilot Study of Pharmacology of Paracetamol Administered Per-oral Mucosa
Paracetamol is the centrally acting analgesic most commonly used in the world, indicated for the symptomatic treatment of fever and pain in mild to moderate. It comes in different formulations for oral, intravenous and rectal. The IV route allows rapid passage of paracetamol in the systemic arterial circulation and thus the brain, faster distribution evidenced a higher plasma concentration compared with oral and rectal. However the IV route also has disadvantages well known ris...
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Baby paracetamol: asthma risk not proven
“Babies given Calpol and other forms of paracetamol are more likely to develop asthma,” the Daily Mail reports. But this headline contradicts the findings of the study it is based on, which also...
Smaller Pack Sizes Reduce Paracetamol Deaths
The number of deaths and liver transplants due to paracetamol overdoses has been significantly reduced thanks to legislation to...
Legislation to change the pack sizes for paracetamol has led to a fall in overdoses, according to an Oxford University study. Laws were passed in 1998 which restricted the pack sizes to 32 tablet...
New advice issued for managing paracetamol overdose
Simplified instructions for the use of intravenous acetylcysteine in the treatment of acute paracetamol overdose were published yesterday...
Objective To assess the long term effect of United Kingdom legislation introduced in September 1998 to restrict pack sizes of paracetamol on deaths from paracetamol poisoning and liver unit...
Is paracetamol hepatotoxic at normal doses?
We note that the number of registrations for hepatic transplantation for paracetamol overdose found in SALT (Study of Acute Liver Transplantation) in the UK1—63 cases in 2005-07 (5.25 cases per......
Is Paracetamol a Childhood Asthma Trigger?
Known generically in the US as ‘acetaminophen', paracetamol might be a trigger for later childhood asthma after being given to infants as an ache or fever treatment, researchers suggest. Based i...
Thailand Airs Possible Scandal Over Poor-Quality Paracetamol From China
Thailand's Public Health Ministry has ordered the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation to explain its ordering and handling of 130 tons of allegedly poor-quality China-made raw materials for making...
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Effect of concomitant opiate ingestion on paracetamol levels in acute overdose.
Aim To assess whether the co-ingestion of opiates in acute paracetamol overdose has an effect on the paracetamol level 4 h after ingestion. Methods A prospective observational study was performed in t...
A clinical study was conducted to assess the ability of a microdose (100μg) to predict the human pharmacokinetics (PK) following a therapeutic dose of clarithromycin, sumatriptan, propafenone, parace...
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to assess the analgesic efficacy of intracutaneous sterile water injection compared with oral paracetamol in pregnant women with acute renal colic caused by urolithi...
BACKGROUND: Paracetamol is commonly prescribed for first-line symptomatic treatment in patients with osteoarthritis and aspirin is often co-administered for cardiovascular prophylaxis. It is not known...
Degradation of paracetamol by pure bacterial cultures and their microbial consortium.
Three bacterial strains utilizing paracetamol as the sole carbon, nitrogen, and energy source were isolated from a paracetamol-degrading aerobic aggregate, and assigned to species of the genera Stenot...
