St James Pharmacy

This is information I provide to my customers as part of my pharmacy practice:
Paracetamol is an excellent, albeit mild pain killer. The usual dose is 1g every four hours - up to a maximum of 8 five hundred mg tablets a day. Paracetamol is available in a long acting dose of 665mg tablets - take 2 every 8 hours. There is also a rapidly acting version of paracetamol - contains 500mg paracetamol per tablet plus a higher than usual level of salt. The body absorbs this salt - and the associated paracetamol - more rapidly than if the tablet contained paracetamol alone. Paracetamol is available as a soluble tablet - this is achieved by adding citrate to the tablet. Please note the addition of salt and citrate to paracetamol necessarily makes these tablets larger than they would otherwise be. Anyhow, not all medicines are suitable for everybody. And please remember if you have any questions please ask your pharmacist