Panadol: "Common Medicine in Every House"

Panadol is a common medicine for every houses.

Actually "Panadol" is a brand name. Panadol's medicine contains the ingredient of paracetamol alone.
What is paracetamol?

Paracetamol can described as 4-acetamidophenol, 4-hydroxyacetanilide or N-acetyl-p-aminophenol. The formula is as the following:

Paracetamol is white, odourless crystalline powder with a bitter taste. Pacacetamol is soluble in water, alcohol, acetone, glycerol, chloroform or methyl alcohol. It is insoluble in benzene and is stable but not in acids or alkaline situations.

Within all this properties, Panadol tablets are white in colour and came out with the Panadol soluble product.

Paracetamol is a medicine used for moderate pain such as headache, toohcare, sore throat, period pain, joint pain and rheumathic aches and pains.It also suitable medicine for fever with colds and flu.

There are many type of Panadol's product in the market now. Different product have their owm characteristic and function.

List of Panadol's poducts:

Panadol extend, Panadol tablet, Panadol ActiFast , Panadol soluble... ...

All the pakage of Panadol have stated the recommended dose, how to take it and the ingredient of paracetamol.

Recommended dose:
> Adult: 1-2 tablets of the 500mg Panadol for each dose

> Children(age 7-12): 1 tablet of the 500mg Panadol for each dose

Panadol can only take each dose at every 4-6 hourly.

Overdose!!!

It is very dangerous for paracetamol overdose: liver damage.

The symptoms does not seem and fatal when the person urgently sent to hospital.

Warning!

Before taking the Panadol, people should take a caution if their kidney and liver are not working properly, a heavy alcohol drinker and malnourised as paracetamol is a drug that will worse our kidney and liver.

Always remember avoid take this medicine with other medicine that contain paracetamol.

If you taking Panadol for headaches too often can make the headaches worse. So consult a doctor if your headaches become persistent.

Benefit?

Panadol is suitable for prenancy and breastfeeding mother. It benefit to the mother and not leave any risk to unborn baby.

But always inform or listen to advice of a doctor be4 using this medicine.