So someone in the bureaucracy in their "wisdom" has decided that ibuprofen
is safer than aspirin at comparable doses ....?
Definitely not evidence-based IMHO.
And what has aspirin got to do with the liver transplants and the
intentional deaths from paracetamol overdose ?
But I love the idea of the unit doses of liquid paracetamol for all those
nocturnally tired parents with febrile kiddies.
We should be doing the same over here
JW
Dr Jon Wilcox
General Medicine, Paediatrics and Obstetrics,
Glenfield Medical Centre,
452 Glenfield Road,
Auckland 1310, New Zealand
Phone or Fax +649-444-7656
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Green <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, 3 September 1998 04:24
Subject: RE: New OTC Analgesic rules.
>Mark,
>
>>It's happening because overdose with aspirin or paracetamol
>>accounts for up to 45 000 hospital admissions and 200 deaths
>>each year - a serious health problem by any standards.
>
>How many from aspirin 75mg?
>
>Any forecasts on the increase in deaths and hospital admissions from stroke
>or MI as aspirin 75mg availability is reduced?
>
>If there is not a significant reduction in hospital admittance/death from
>overdose will GP prescribing be curtailed in the future? ;)
>
>Regards
>
>Regards
>
>Jeff Green
>
>Community Locum and Consultant Pharmacist
>
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