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- Hi folks, Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Hi, I'm Chris the Pharmacist.
- And I'm exactly one half
of the Bob and Brad Physical Therapy channel,
but obviously Bob's not here.
He's out doing some wonderful research.
Chris is here.
We're happy to have him.
We're gonna do a great short video
on everything you need to know about Tylenol,
so you get exactly what you need
and you know what you're doing.
Chris, take it on.
- All right.
We gotta talk about the giveaway.
- The giveaway!
We do have a wonderful giveaway.
It's our wall anchor.
And you can see, you can put it on the wall.
This is a model.
It needs to have a wooden two by four,
which vast majority of houses
in the United States do anyways, that I'm aware of.
- I don't know what else it'll be on.
- You put it in into the wooden two by four,
as it is listed. And you can,
this is just one of the many ways,
you can lock on a two band.
Go ahead, Chris, do some W's.
The famous W's.
Work some posture.
Okay, that's good enough. - All right.
There are four of them in a set,
and if you win, you'll get four of them sent to your house.
And I, also, we do have a set going internationally.
- All right. - And in the United States
because it's not easy to get it international.
We set it up so that, yes, it does go there.
Tylenol, take it, Chris.
- All right, Tylenol.
Pretty much one of the quintessential pain relievers
that you can buy over the counter.
- Yes.
- So Tylenol is Acetaminophen,
or if you're over the pond, it's gonna be paracetamol.
- You mean in Europe?
- Yep, UK.
- What about everywhere else?
Australia, everywhere else?
- I think, I don't know that one off the top of my head,
but I'm gonna guess it's gonna be
Acetaminophen or paracetamol.
I don't know what it'd be like, say in Russia, Morocco,
I'm not sure.
We're gonna call it Acetaminophen.
- Yep, sounds good. But that's the active ingredient.
- That is the active ingredient.
And basically, what it's used for
is either for pain or for fever reduction.
So those are your kind of keys.
And one of the coolest things about Tylenol
it's just simply very safe stuff.
So unless you're having liver problems,
which your doctor would let you know,
and so if you're a heavy drinker,
it's probably not the best choice for you.
Well, realistically,
because alcohol goes through the liver.
So it's just something that if you're,
somebody over three drinks a day on average,
then it's probably something you should not use.
- Okay.
- Because it could actually create problems
with long term use.
- So pain, it doesn't matter if it's a sprained ankle,
a headache, a stomach ache?
- You know, you just, if you have just, I don't know,
a sprain a strain, headache.
So it works great.
It is an analgesic.
So basically it just means you don't care about the pain.
So for most adults, it's gonna be pretty much
most people will use the extra strength, variety.
It comes in two strengths.
It's 325 milligrams or 500 milligrams.
That happens to be a 500 milligram bottle.
So, and that's the extra strength.
So most people use that, because therapeutically
you're just gonna get a little bit more
bang for the buck, so to speak.
- So adults you said, it doesn't matter if it's a,
100 pound adult or 300-
- Yeah 12 on up is kind of how they use that.
So they consider most 12 year olds using
just in generalized terms using it for kids.
We dose it a little bit more specific to their body weight.
So if you had, you know, little Timmy got up with a fever
in the middle of the night and you call your pharmacy
they're gonna ask for the child's weight,
convert it to kilograms.
And then you're gonna calculate a dose,
which is anywhere from five to 15 milligrams
per kilogram of body weight.
- What does that mean?
What do you give your kid?
- You just... Well yeah, as you would calculate it out.
- One of these a 500?
- No, no. You would use a liquid in the kid.
- Oh, I see.
- So there's liquid versions for children
actually been suppositories
if they're throwing up all the time.
So, I mean, so there's a lot of different ways,
you can get Tylenol or Acetaminophen.
- Yeah. That's great to know for people
who have the young children.
Yeah. If you do it and you know, if you have somebody
that's really nausea and vomiting
and they just can't take anything by mouth,
the suppository is a realistic option for you.
Not that people will really enjoy rectal administration,
but it's certainly something that's available
when you're really sick and you need it.
It definitely works.
- Okay.
- With respect to the dosing for an adult
let's say, Brad, you got a bad headache.
I'll tell you: "Hey Brad, why don't you try a
1000 milligrams of Tylenol,
which is two extra strength tablets,
and you can take it every four to six hours apart."
And we keep the old standard was eight a day,
but the new standard is six a day.
So which is a total of 3000 milligrams.
So that's kind of your top end.
So, you know, let's say it's,
I got a headache that's bothering you.
Let's say it's for three days.
Then you wanna bring in your doctor,
you're you know, just saying: "Hey I got this headache,
it's not going away."
- So you take,
this three times a day, for three days,
And if it's not gone...
- You might wanna make a phone call.
I mean, if or if you see the pain getting worse,
while you're taking it.
So you just wanna be careful.
But the other cool thing about,
you know, Tylenol Acetaminophen,
if you're on blood thinners.
So like things like Warfarin, Eliquis, Xarelto,
which are all drugs that are used for people that have clots
or just something wrong, it's safe with that.
So that's, it's one of the go-to's for us.
And it's not rough on the stomach.
So those are really one of the biggest things.
- So you don't have to take it with food.
- No. - Okay.
- Very safe.
The other thing is, let's say you're feeling sick.
You got COVID, you got flu, you got a cold,
and you got a fever and you're really uncomfortable,
Tylenol great fever reducer.
So it helps you to feel more comfortable,
so that you can get the rest,
to allow your body to help you to try and recover.
- Okay. Any precautions that you didn't mention already?
- No. I mean, it's the alcohol,
you know, it's the safe choice for, uh, blood thinners,
obviously, you know, allergies or if it was a liver problem,
that would be the other big case.
And, what's the best Tylenol to buy,
I mean, Tylenol is Tylenol or what's-?
- Yeah. I mean, Tylenol is the brand name of Acetaminophen.
I would tell you to buy the store equivalent I mean,
everybody think now is, is all standardized.
So it's all very safe and inexpensive.
I mean, I would tell you unless they didn't offer generic,
you could buy Tylenol
but there's really no reason because it's the exact same.
- So on the shelf, like this says,
- Yeah, well, you walk-
You walk into a store, you're gonna see Tylenol
and right next to, you're gonna see Acetaminophen
right next to it.
So, and I would tell you by the one that's
next to the brand name, simply because
you're just paying more.
Just a shinier prettier bottle
and that's really about it.
- Right. You got the name and stuff.
Like on here, we put Tylenol,
on here just because we know-
- Well Acetaminophen doesn't roll off the tongue.
I mean, you know, like when we're writing things
down at work, we write APAP, AP-AP
so we don't write down Acetaminophen.
- I see. Sure.
Okay. Very good. I think that covers everything.
- Yeah, I think so.
- All right. Thank you.
- Have a great day guys.