TYPE Paracetamol / Acetaminophen

BRANDS Biogesic Panadol Alaxan Tylenol

FOR Relieves pain Reduces Fever

NOT FOR Liver protection. Most drugs are churned and trafficked from point A to B in your liver. Too much of the instructed milligram intake overwhelms it, forcing it to open a detour route. Accessing the detour route triggers your body to loose an enzyme which, for all intents and purposes, kills your liver cells. So: overdosing on Paracetamol is bad; having a drinking prob and taking Paracetamol just as often is worse; using it as a hangover pill; epic fail. But taken in the right dosage, Paracetamol is still proven safe and effective.

Ibuprofen

Advil Alaxan

Picks up where Paracetamol left off by relieving pain and stopping inflammation and swelling. Travels to specific spots in your body, cutting off chemicals that cause your body pain. In other words, numbing it. Ibuprofens are the

Reduce fever Which is why an Ibuprofen + Paracetamol hybrid is not unheard of.

better-popped pill where arthritis, sprain and any variety of muscle pain are involved. Aspirin Bayer Midol Norgesic Rounds up the trilogy of painkillers nicely. Aspirin is a little of paracetamol and ibuprofen combined. It thins out blood vessels, lowering body heat caused by fever and reduces tissue concentration caused by (and thereby reversing) swelling and pain. It also stops blood clots leading to heart attack and stroke, earning the title miracle drug. In some instances, not working at all. Doctors have reported cases where people develop resistance to asprins properties over time. Other people are born aspirin-resistant

Guaifenesin

Robitussin Codimal

Loosens phlegm clumping major passages of your lungs or bronchial tubes by reducing its thickness and stickiness, leaving you free to eject that big loogey and relieving you from the painful whoop triggered by colds

Remedy cough-related sicknesses outside the usual cold and influenza

Loperamide

Diatabs Imodium

Relieves gastroenteritis (stomach flu) resulting in diarrhea. Loperamide slows down muscle contractions in your intestines, preventing it from delivering flare-ups in your rear end.

Empty your violated stomach. Youre pooping too much because you ate something wrong, in which case doctors much prefer you let all remnants of the rotten thing out. Loperamide is an anti-motility drug, which means it halts all that movement in your bowels from continuing waste disposal. Good when youre traveling or in compromising situations, but only until then.