{"id":95440,"date":"2021-04-02T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T10:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=95440"},"modified":"2023-08-17T05:05:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T05:05:21","slug":"paracetamol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/paracetamol\/","title":{"rendered":"Paracetamol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common drug used to relieve mild to moderate pain and reduce fever.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>An analgesic drug that also reduces fever. It is used to treat mild or moderate pain, such as headache, toothache, and rheumatism. It is administered by mouth and may cause digestive upsets; over-dosage causes liver damage.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A non-opioid analgesic similar in efficacy to aspirin, but without anti-inflammatory activity. It also has the advantage over aspirin of causing less gastric irritation. 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It is used to treat mild or moderate pain, such as headache, toothache, and rheumatism. It is administered by mouth and may cause digestive upsets; over-dosage causes liver damage. A non-opioid analgesic similar in efficacy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-p"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Paracetamol - Definition of Paracetamol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A common drug used to relieve mild to moderate pain and reduce fever.An analgesic drug that also reduces fever. It is used to treat mild or moderate pain, such as headache, toothache, and rheumatism. 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