Take a Caplet Not a Tablet (Tesco Paracetamol Caplets)

Member Name: flutel

Product:	Tesco Paracetamol Caplets
Date:	07/08/09 (91 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Easy to swallow, basic pain relief, cheap.

Disadvantages: Not effective for terrible pain

I'm not one for taking a paracetamol at the drop of a hat and will often try and use other methods to stem more minor pains but there are some pains that you need to get rid of fast. Tesco paracetamol is a basic painkiller that I buy for those times for me and my household.

What pain?
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Tesco paracetamol caplets can be taken for relief of the following mild to moderate the pains: headache, migraine, neuralgia, toothache, sore throat and period pain. It can also be used to relieve the symptoms of rheumatic and muscular aches.

Paracetamol can also bring town a feverish temperature.


Price
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They are very cheap - 23p for 16 caplets. Each caplet containing a decent amount of the drug (500mg).


What is a 'caplet'?
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A caplet is a 'capsule' shaped 'tablet'. Caplet is a 'portmanteau word' containing two parts of those different words. I find that they are much easier to swallow than round tablets that sometimes can get stuck in your throat and cause horrible choking and panic.

I also like these caplets because I wish to avoid gelatin capsules which are not suitable for veggies.


Packaging
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The caplets come in a small blue cardboard box which contaiins two plasic, foil covered sheets of eight caplets.

The box also has writing in braille on it - so that visually impaired people can know exactly what they are handling. I very much like seeing this because these are dangerous drugs when taken in a huge quantity. This is useful and a safety precaution.

The caplets are easy to pop out by pushing the caplet from the plastic container, through the foil and then out.

There is a leaflet with safety and dosage info in the pack.

Taking the Caplets
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Paracetamol has a bitter taste but the shape of these caplets means that they can slip down without you tasting any of it.

Dosage for adults is generally 1 - 2 tablets taken every 4 hours. There is a warning not to exceed taking more than 8 tablets a day. Paracetamol overdose can cause irreversable liver failure.

I will usually try to get away with taking the odd one here or there when absolutely necessary. However, I did have a small operation over a year ago and it was absolutely necessary to dull the pain. I took paracetamol with some codeine tablets also (prescribed) because of the pain. When the hospital supply ran out, I used Tesco paracetamol caplets which took the edge off the pain.

To Conclude
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These are very useful and easily swallowable paracetamol caplets that are good to have on hand when pain strikes (usually out of the blue as is often the nature of pain). Tesco has made these drugs easily affordable. It is a good idea to have them on hand for when they are truly needed.

Summary: A medicine cupboard staple.