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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...
...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...
ASPIRIN ALERT Most folks who routinely take low-dose aspirin to prevent a second heart attack think nothing of downing additional anti-inflammatories to quell their arthritis pain. Not a good idea. Scientists have discovered that ibuprofen, sold under the brand names Advil and Motrin, may interfere with aspirin's ability to protect the heart. What's left? Tylenol (in low doses) and prescription anti-inflammatories Voltaren and Vioxx don't mess with aspirin...
...pinned Javed to the floor when four guards, including a woman, entered the room. "What's going on in here?" one asked. The female officer picked up Javed's clothes, and he got dressed. He was taken to the prison nurse and treated with, he says, "one Motrin." For the rest of his three-day detention, he was placed in a solitary cell...