{"id":191153,"date":"2025-09-30T01:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191153\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:14:10","slug":"is-acetaminophen-a-safe-pain-reliever-for-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191153\/","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":2,"featured_media":191154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[28675,111418,97,243,21413,111420,111417,12834,111419,111416],"class_list":["post-191153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-acetaminophen","tag-acetaminophen-safety","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-pain-relief","tag-pain-relief-drugs","tag-pain-reliever-safety","tag-tylenol","tag-tylenol-for-pain","tag-tylenol-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}