Medicines & Safety
Paracetamol: How Much Is Safe, and the Liver Risk
The safe adult maximum is 4 g in 24 hours. Above that it damages the liver, and for the first day or two an overdose causes almost no symptoms at all.
28 Aug 202611 min read
Painkillers, antibiotics, antacids and the rest of the shelf: doses, timing with food, what not to combine, what to do about a missed dose, and why finishing an antibiotic course is not the simple rule it used to be.
Medicines & Safety
The safe adult maximum is 4 g in 24 hours. Above that it damages the liver, and for the first day or two an overdose causes almost no symptoms at all.
28 Aug 202611 min read
Medicines & Safety
They do nothing for colds, flu, dengue or most coughs. What antibiotics really treat, why buying them without a prescription is dangerous, and what resistance has already cost Pakistan.
26 Aug 202611 min read