Side effects: Authority calls for smaller painkiller packs

Shelf with prescription packaging: painkiller sales should be restricted
Prepared for any situation: Many people buy painkillers at the pharmacy happy to supply. This should now be concluded. Because of possible side effects of aspirin, ibuprofen and Co. will in future only be sold over the counter in smaller packages.

If you always like to have a painkiller supply in the medicine cabinet is likely to be soon put off in small packages: Because of the risks to the free sales are restricted. Pharmacies, some of the most common pain relievers only sell in small packages without a prescription. Reason, the sometimes dangerous side effects of drugs that can occur when careless handling of the drugs.

Should be limited to packs of OTC pain relievers with the drug acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), diclofenac, ibuprofen and naproxen. The committee recommended a key at the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) in Bonn on Tuesday.
The final decision rests with the Federal Ministry of Health. "We will thoroughly examine the recommendation," said a ministry spokesman in Berlin.

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Shopping before the holiday once again a large pack painkillers? In the future there will be something not good. Aspirin and other agents should only be in small doses without a prescription. The pharmacologist Kay Brune about the dangers of this Allerweltsmittel and their abuse.

   
No more storage packs of painkillers: The commonly used non-prescription pain relievers should in future only be available in small doses in the pharmacy: acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin), diclofenac, ibuprofen and naproxen are then only remain without a prescription in such quantities that are sufficient for four days. Paracetamol has been since 2009, only released in smaller packages for sale. It remains. These decisions, the expert committee of the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) taken now. The federal government has yet to approve the following, but in general the recommendations of the Committee. About the pros and cons of decisions Kay Brune, a pharmacologist at the University speaks of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Pain medication would no longer be available in unlimited quantities.

Side Effect of Researcher: All known painkillers are likely soon only be available in smaller packs in order to protect the consumer. What makes them so dangerous?

Kay Brune: Available for sale does not mean harmless. In particular, the Allerweltsmittel aspirin and paracetamol can have serious side effects. Aspirin exerts its analgesic effect for about four hours, but side-effects show for four days. I'm talking about blood clotting disorders: The drug thins the blood. This effect does not end with the analgesic effect of the pill, but takes days long. Consumers who knows? Bleeding is the major risk of this drug.