Drug Facts
Product: Headache
Active Ingredients: M Risno… 342 mg
Inactive Ingredients: Absurdist… 342 mg
Uses
.I admit:
to being prone to headaches from time to time — too much light — or too little light.
Hours of staring into a lit screen may affect my eyes.
The internet supplies quick diagnosis’ and endless avenues of self-medicating, but nothing seems to work better than Ibuprofen.
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.Ibuprofen lysine
— Specifically its proprietary drug variety — Nurofen come in various concentrations and combinations.
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.Nurofen
.Tension Headaches
.Migraines
I noticed something that puzzled me. Namely that Nurofen for tension headache and Nurofen for migraines specify in the contents list the same active ingredients:
Ibuprofen lysine 342 milligrams(NSAID)*…..Pain reliever/fever reducer
*nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
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.Identical dosage
.varied packaging
The Electronic Medicines Compendium lists both product names in one complete information sheet.
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A justified question follows
If the products are the same at their constituent level, why is one targeted at tension headaches, and the other at migraines? My lovely partner ventured that it might be only women who get ‘tension headaches’, as her doctor suggested this pill for her periodic ailments. Would that mean that only men get migraines?
.60% of people improve with any given NSAID
and it is recommended that if one does not work that another should be tried.
Can it be too good? It may have too many uses and, as such, people might find it strange to get the same thing for different ailments. As any person who’s spent some time in the bowels of the advertising industry knows, you can actually flog the same dead horse twice — just think what you can do with something that actually works?
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.A marketing ploy?
Some people do believe so.
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Is there a level where gender normative is defined by products?
.Coca Cola
.Carbonated water
.Sugar 38 grams
.Caffeine
.Phosphoric acid
.Caramel color (E150d)
.Natural flavorings
.Sodium 50 mg
Enjoy the taste.
.Diet Coke
Targeted to women, with all sort of giggly adventures featuring “the girls” and a garden variety of hunks. But wait, why can’t the hunks drink the same stuff? It’s too late to change the advertising manner for Diet Coke, no wannabe macho would touch it.
.Coca Cola Zero:
Coke without sugar and with plenty of sweeteners, but made unique by its black packaging. It’s not diet, it’s Zero, since it has no sugar. It’s health-conscious.
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.The Coca Cola Company maintains they are well different:
Coca‑Cola Zero delivers the great taste of Coca‑Cola, with zero sugar. While it has the same sweeteners [author’s stress] as Diet Coke (a blend of aspartame and acesulfame-K), it has a different flavour base, though both contain zero sugar and are calorie free.
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In this Coke user’s opinion, same-same.
.More advanced taste buds
Have conducted some analysis, showing that they differ in respect of acids used, and caffeine concentration.
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.Rose
.Rose
However, not all headaches are created equal, and perhaps no two people experience headaches in the same way, men or women — but 342 milligram of Ibuprofen Lysine, by any trade mark and packaging known, is the best I can recommend.
