The restriction on buying Paracetamol and Ibuprofen together is indeed nonsense as they are often used together. However.....the restriction on the amount of paracetamol you can buy has achieved its intended purpose. I too was sceptical when it was introduced, but many who take overdoses do so on impulse, and the smaller quantities you can buy usually mean people have less of it lying around at home, so the incidence of self poisoning has indeed dropped.Mervyn and Trish wrote: 13 Apr 2017, 13:48They do. Over caution. And a waste of time. If you really want to kill yourself you can go to another till or another shop and buy more. But in our case when we both had heavy colds and needed to top up our medicine drawer it was a pain in the bum when I was already feeling miserable.
Anyhow paracetamol doesn't kill you per se, it just wrecks your liver; - so you die a week or two later from the consequences of liver failure. Not a pleasant way to go, and plenty of time to reflect on what you've done.
