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Ibuprofen
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I'm currently taking 600mg of Ibuprofen every 4-5 hours for this nightmare of a toothache. What's the maximum amount that can be taken over 24 hours?
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toxic effect are rarely seen below 100 mg/kg and if you are 60kg then that would be 6000 mg - and currently you are doing 3600.
some way to go
I would add in paracetamol - or cocodamol - havent we had this conversation - and you can easily go up to 4000mg on that as well - eight tabs spaced. I regard this as low.
(the loading dose [first dose] of paracetamol is 40mg/kg or 2400mg or five tablets as I have said before but all people do is say 'I read the side of the cornflake pkt and IT said....)
toxic effect are rarely seen below 100 mg/kg and if you are 60kg then that would be 6000 mg - and currently you are doing 3600.
some way to go
I would add in paracetamol - or cocodamol - havent we had this conversation - and you can easily go up to 4000mg on that as well - eight tabs spaced. I regard this as low.
(the loading dose [first dose] of paracetamol is 40mg/kg or 2400mg or five tablets as I have said before but all people do is say 'I read the side of the cornflake pkt and IT said....)