With the approach of winter and its cold, as well as in the conditions of the epidemic wave of Covid-19, patients will have to tighten their belts in terms of the use of Doliprane or Efferalgan. In a statement, the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines (ANSM) called on healthcare providers to limit the provision of paracetamol to their patients.
So pharmacists are invitedlimit dispensing to two boxes per patient” in the absence of a prescription: “prefer prescription“, and limit the online sale of paracetamol. Doctors should avoid prescribing this pain reliever to patients.who does not need it immediately“, and “promote three doses per day every 8 hours (instead of four doses every 6 hours per day)“.
Supply voltages
Patients, ANSM asks not to reserve and wait “customized dispensationPharmacists will indeed be able to sell a lower amount of paracetamol than prescribed. The ANSM, but also the College of General Medicine and the Pharmacists’ Unions, invite us to “moderate use of paracetamol“for”to allow patients in immediate need to benefit from it“.
This opinion is justified by the supply tension starting from July, as ANSM had previously warned. It refers to production difficulties and consumption growth during the Covid crisis.
Source: Le Figaro
