Word: advil
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...your doctor decide that you should start taking low-dose aspirin therapy, be sure you use the right pills. Although there is reason to suspect that other anti-inflammatory drugs, such as Advil and Motrin or the newer COX-2 inhibitors Vioxx and Celebrex, might offer similar protection, only aspirin has been rigorously tested. Tylenol (acetaminophen) is not an anti-inflammatory, so don't expect it to protect you against colon or any other cancer...
Gwaltney's favorite combo is a curious mix of high-and low-tech treatments: a quick squirt into the nose of the biotech drug interferon, followed by two over-the-counter pills--an anti-inflammatory like ibuprofen (such as Advil or Motrin) and a so-called first-generation antihistamine like chlorpheniramine (such as Chlor-Trimeton). The interferon primes the immune system to unleash its antiviral defenses while the ibuprofen and the chlorpheniramine keep the inflammatory processes under control...
...study, published in yesterday’s Archives of Internal Medicine, concluded that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, found in Advil and Motrin, among other painkillers, and acetaminophen, an ingredient in Tylenol, “were significantly associated with increased risk of hypertension...
...Since you don’t get treated by the trainers, you learn fast to deal with your own problems,” Mazza says. “It’s not unusual that guys pop four or five Advil before games to numb themselves for a while. After that, we just basically play on adrenaline...
...painkiller, a blood thinner and a heart saver as well. But taking aspirin in combination with ibuprofen (in the form of Advil or Motrin) can render the multi-purpose pill powerless. Ibuprofen, it turns out, blocks aspirin's blood-thinning ability 98%; more studies are needed to determine whether people who take both drugs need to worry about a higher heart-attack risk. In the meantime, doctors note that aspirin does not cancel the effects of other major painkillers, including rofecoxib and acetominophen...