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From: [email protected] (Nathan Otto Siemers)
Subject: Re: Analgesics with Diuretics
>>>>> On Tue, 6 Apr 1993 03:28:57 GMT, [email protected] (Steve Dyer) said:
| In article Lawrence Curcio writes:
|>I sometimes see OTC preparations for muscle aches/back aches that
|>combine aspirin with a diuretic.
| You certainly do not see OTC preparations advertised as such.
| The only such ridiculous concoctions are nostrums for premenstrual
| syndrome, ostensibly to treat headache and "bloating" simultaneously.
| They're worthless.
|>The idea seems to be to reduce
|>inflammation by getting rid of fluid. Does this actually work?
| That's not the idea, and no, they don't work.
I *believe* there is a known synergism between certain
analgesics and caffiene. For treating pain, not inflammation.
Now that I am an ibuprofen convert I haven't taken it for some
time, but excedrin really works! (grin)
Nathan
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