Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs NSAIDs like ibuprofen are some of the most commonly used medications, with more than 30 billion doses taken annually in the US alone. And because side effects are dose-related, overdoing it makes them even more likely, leading to bigger problems than the aches, pain and fever you originally took the meds for.
Study participants, who kept a daily diary of their NSAID use for one week, exceeded the limit in several ways:. Most participants in the study only took OTC meds. But those using prescription NSAIDs complied significantly better with the maximum dosage—only 2 percent exceeded the daily limit. This highlights the concern about the lack of medical oversight with OTC meds.
People who exceeded the limit also were more likely to have ongoing pain and poor physical function. How too many NSAIDs can affect you NSAIDs can be hard on the stomach, causing minor troubles, such as indigestion and stomach ache, or more serious problems like irritation of the stomach lining, ulcers and bleeding in the stomach or bowel.
Both Motrin and Advil — two of the most popular nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, also known as NSAIDs — come with warning labels that suggest a maximum adult dose of 1, milligrams per day. With milligram pills, that translates to one every four hours.
While suggesting that people only take the minimum necessary to relieve their pain, they also say it is all right to take a second pill if one alone does not work. Taking two every six hours, a common strategy, would add up to a 1,milligram dose in one day. Read: Liver Damage with Advil vs. Those directions are on the safest end of the scale.
But the other end is not as well defined. One article about ibuprofen overdoses on the National Institutes of Health discusses how symptoms will present themselves with overdoses, saying symptoms are unlikely if someone has taken less than milligrams per kilogram of their body weight — for reference, someone weighing pounds is about 68 kilograms — which represents a massive dose compared to what the drug manufacturers recommend.
Over-the-counter painkillers like ibuprofen could be dangerous in high doses. Image courtesy of Pixabay, public domain. The U. National Library of Medicine lists symptoms of ibuprofen overdose as blurred vision, ringing in the ears, diarrhea, heartburn, nausea, stomach pain from internal bleeding, difficulty breathing, headache, confusion, drowsines, seizures, dizziness, sweating and a lack of urine from the kidneys being impaired.
National Library of Medicine says. Most of those cases, however, could be linked to an immunoallergic reaction. Read: 6 Early Signs of Liver Damage. By Lisa Rapaport , Reuters Health. Reuters Health - Many adults who use ibuprofen and other so-called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory NSAID drugs take too much, increasing their risk of serious side effects like internal bleeding and heart attacks, a U.
About 15 percent of adults taking ibuprofen Motrin, Advil or other NSAIDs like aspirin, naproxen Aleve , celecoxib Celebrex , meloxicam Mobic and diclofenac Voltaren exceeded the maximum recommended daily dose for these drugs, the study found.
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