I'm taking it upon myself to add this information to all tylenol and acetaminophen related posts I see. For our uk/EU frens: the name you are hearing isn't what the drug is known as in your region.
The name in your region is paracetamol. The most common pain killer outside ibuprofen or aspirin. They are the same drug.
I asked the doctors i see and none of them knew what acetaminophen was. They thought it was a brand name for a drug, when I knew it was the generic name. Turns out the two regions (us/Japan vs eu/uk) abbreviated the same chemical formula differently.
N-acetyl-para-aminophenol (APAP) is the formula, and America used the acet+aminophen as an abbreviation, while eu/uk use a different name to describe the formula (para-acetylaminophenol which was abbreviated to paracetamol) which is actually exactly the same as N-acetyl-para-aminophenol (APAP).
I'm taking it upon myself to add this information to all tylenol and acetaminophen related posts I see. For our uk/EU frens: the name you are hearing isn't what the drug is known as in your region.
The name in your region is paracetamol. The most common pain killer outside ibuprofen or aspirin. They are the same drug.
I asked the doctors i see and none of them knew what acetaminophen was. They thought it was a brand name for a drug, when I knew it was the generic name. Turns out the two regions (us/Japan vs eu/uk) abbreviated the same chemical formula differently.
N-acetyl-para-aminophenol (APAP) is the formula, and America used the acet+aminophen as an abbreviation, while eu/uk use a different name to describe the formula (para-acetylaminophenol which was abbreviated to paracetamol) which is actually exactly the same as N-acetyl-para-aminophenol (APAP).
The more you know