{"id":265387,"date":"2025-09-30T02:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265387\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:32:15","slug":"is-acetaminophen-a-safe-pain-reliever-for-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265387\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Acetaminophen a Safe Pain Reliever for Older Adults?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Is acetaminophen lurking in other medicines?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes. More than 600 OTC and prescription medications contain acetaminophen. If you\u2019re taking acetaminophen and add another acetaminophen-containing medicine, you could be getting too much, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration\u00a0warns.<\/p>\n<p>Check the label for mentions of APAP, AC, acetaminophen, acetaminoph, acetaminop, acetamin, or acetam \u2014 these mean that the medication contains acetaminophen. You can also double-check with your doctor or pharmacist to see if other medicines you take contain acetaminophen.<\/p>\n<p>Acetaminophen is in OTC medicines such as Vicks, Zicam, Triaminic and Excedrin.<\/p>\n<p>Common prescription drugs that contain acetaminophen include Endocet, Oxycodone, Percocet, Hydrocet, and Vicodin, the American Liver Foundation reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is acetaminophen lurking in other medicines?\u00a0 Yes. More than 600 OTC and prescription medications contain acetaminophen. If you\u2019re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":265388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[59741,138514,210,1060,18968,138516,138513,47486,138515,138512,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-265387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-acetaminophen","9":"tag-acetaminophen-safety","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-pain-relief","13":"tag-pain-relief-drugs","14":"tag-pain-reliever-safety","15":"tag-tylenol","16":"tag-tylenol-for-pain","17":"tag-tylenol-safety","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115290908019922968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}