Digital well being editor, RAYNAE Information
BootsThe Excessive Road pharmacy chain Boots is asking clients to return packs of 500-milligram paracetamol tablets as a result of a labelling error incorrectly states they’re a unique painkiller, aspirin.
Greater than 110,000 packs, with the batch quantity 241005 and expiry date “12/2029” on the underside, are affected.
Clients can obtain a full refund and not using a receipt.
Boots and the provider, Aspar Prescribed drugs Restricted, have begun a full investigation.
The outer cardboard packaging is appropriately labelled: “Paracetamol 500mg Tablets” however the interior foil blister pack of tablets as an alternative reads: “Aspirin 300mg Dispersable Tablets”.
The affected packs shouldn’t be used or stored, even when the error is understood, as this might result in an incorrect dose.
And anybody who has purchased this product for another person ought to inform them as quickly as attainable.
‘Search recommendation’
Dr Stephanie Millican, from the Medicines and Healthcare Merchandise Regulatory Company (MHRA), stated: “Affected person security is at all times our precedence.
“It’s vitally necessary that you simply verify the packaging of your Boots Paracetamol 500mg Tablets 16s – and if the batch quantity is 241005, it is best to cease utilizing the product and return it to a Boots retailer for a full refund.
“In case you are not sure which pack you’ve bought or have taken Boots Paracetamol 500mg Tablets and skilled any unwanted effects, search recommendation from a healthcare skilled.
“Please report any suspected opposed reactions by way of the MHRA’s Yellow Card scheme.
“When you have any questions or require additional recommendation, please search recommendation out of your pharmacist or different related healthcare skilled.”
Paracetamol is an efficient painkiller for delicate or average ache. It might be higher than aspirin for complications, toothache, sprains and abdomen ache.
Aspirin could also be higher than paracetamol for interval ache or migraines, says the NHS.
Aspirin stops your physique making compounds referred to as prostaglandins and this lowers the ache and reduces swelling and excessive temperature.
Ibuprofen – one other sort of painkiller, often known as a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug or NSAID – works in an identical option to aspirin.
