The nonprescription oral pain relievers in your local drugstore aren't all the same. But they do fall into two main categories:
1) Pain relievers that reduce inflammation. Often called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), this group includes medications with aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen sodium or ketoprofen.
2) Pain relievers that don't decrease inflammation. The active ingredient in these medications is acetaminophen.
Tylenol is considered the pain reliever of choice by doctors and leading professional healthcare organizations. Used as directed, Tylenol has a superior safety profile compared with all other over-the-counter pain relievers.
Ascriptin provides temporary relief from minor aches and pains, including headaches, muscle aches, toothaches, menstrual cramps, and arthritis pain. It can also be used to reduce fever and to combat the discomforts of the common cold. The product comes in three varieties. Regular Strength and Arthritis Pain Ascriptin both contain 325 milligrams of aspirin. Maximum Strength Ascriptin contains 500 milligrams.
Since its market introduction under the trademark Aspirin® in the year 1899, acetylsalicylic acid has attained a leading position world-wide in the prescription-free therapy of painful, inflammatory and feverish states. For the temporary relief of headache, pain and fever of colds, muscle pain, menstrual pain, toothache pain, minor pain of arthritis.
Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) belongs to the groups of medications called analgesics (pain relievers), antipyretics (fever reducers), anti-inflammatories (inflammation reducers), and platelet aggregation inhibitors (anti-clotting agents). It works to relieve pain caused by conditions such as headaches, rheumatoid arthritis, and muscle pain and to reduce fever caused by infection.
Ecotrin is always safety coated, and that's great news for people who take aspirin every day. The coating on Ecotrin aspirin prevents the aspirin from dissolving in the stomach. Instead, it dissolves and is absorbed in the small intestine, where most nutrients and drugs are absorbed anyway. Thus, the stomach lining is protected from irritation.
Ibuprofen belongs to a class of drugs called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). These drugs are used for the management of mild to moderate pain, fever, and inflammation. Prostaglandins are chemicals that are made by the body and are responsible for causing pain, fever and inflammation.
Temporarily relieves minor aches and pains due to: headache, muscular aches, minor pain of arthritis, toothache, backache, the common cold, menstrual cramps, reduces fever. Available in Caplets, Tablets, Gelcaps
Naproxen belongs to a class of drugs called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). These drugs are used for the management of mild to moderate pain, fever, and inflammation. They work by reducing the levels of prostaglandins, chemicals that are responsible for pain, fever and inflammation.
Orudis is an over-the-counter version of the prescription drug ketoprofen. It provides temporary relief from headache, toothache, muscle ache, backache, arthritis, menstrual cramps, and the minor aches and pains of a cold. They also reduce fever.
Together, acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine are used to treat pain from conditions such as headache (including migraine), muscle aches, menstrual cramps, arthritis, backache, toothaches, colds and sinus infections.
Acetaminophen is a pain reliever and a fever reducer. Diphenhydramine is an antihistamine.
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