This fall stopped the sale of painkillers that Alvedon and Panadol in supermarkets. The MPA has decided.
– The reason is that since 2009 has seen a steady and significant increase in the number of cases of poisoning with paracetalmol. In 2013 we had more than 1 500 cases of this poisoning shape, which is very serious and can lead to life-threatening liver damage.
What do you mean by poisoning case?
– These are mainly of conscious self-injurious acts that deliberately takes an overdose in order to harm himself. Approximately 85 percent of these poisoning cases is precisely such a self-destructive actions.
What is it that makes this?
– There are younger, about 40 percent of the these cases are in the 15-24 age group. In three of four cases, these are women.
For the first time since it was allowed to sell medicines outside pharmacies – almost six years ago – the MPA has today decided to stop the sale of a preparation. It is thus about acetaminophen in tablet form.
As of November 1 it will no longer going to buy exemplevis Alvedon and Panadol in supermarkets and petrol stations. The decision concerns only ordinary tablets are swallowed whole, and not, for example, orodispersible tablets and effervescent tablets, says Rolf Gedeborg, doctors at the MPA.
– In normal use acetaminophen a very safe and valuable medicines. The purpose of this action is precisely that as little as possible impact on the standard of any use of acetaminophen, says Rolf Gedeborg.
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