I'm back in the medicine cabinet! (Ibuprofen)

Name: Blurbubble

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Product:	Ibuprofen
Date:	27/05/01 (175 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap and effective

Disadvantages: Possible side effects

Why shell out for Nurofen when you can buy the generic, Ibuprofen, for a fraction of the price and it does the job just as well? The price of Nurofen is inflated by it being a brand name in fancy packaging. Buy a shop’s own brand, in basic packaging, and you get the same medication with the same useful information sheet at an average price of around 99p (often cheaper) for 12 – 16 tablets.

Ibuprofen is available in this form in most obvious shops – Boots, Superdrug, Tesco, Sainsburys, Numark and even Wilkos to name but a few!

The active drug itself is a painkiller and anti-inflammatory useful for relief of headaches, migraine, dental pain, backache, period pain, gout, muscular and rheumatic pain. It also reduces fever and swelling. It works differently and has different ingredients to paracetamol so the two can be taken together, as my doctor recommended to me, for increased effect in relieving severe pain.

The tablets come in a white sugar-coated shell, usually round or bullet shaped for ease of swallowing. They contain 200mg of the active ingredient, Ibuprofen, in their normal strength but can also be bought at extra strength of 400mg. One or two tablets, taken no sooner than four hours apart, should effectively and quickly reduce pain. In my personal experience I find Ibuprofen to be more effective than paracetamol alone and faster at reducing symptoms too, although I now need distalgesics as it isn’t quite strong enough for my own current needs.

Like all medicines, over the counter or otherwise, there are the inevitable possible risks of side effects – in this case nausea, skin rashes, dizziness, or (in severe cases, stomach ulcers or blood problems.

Overall, as a cheap, effective and fast-acting painkiller, I think Ibuprofen is one of the best.

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