I just have a quick nurafen story .....

A few years ago I had a packet of Nurafen meltlets in my hand bag (meltlets are the ones that dissolve in your mouth and you don't need water for)

anyway, they were in the foil capsule things in the cardboard packet, in my zipped handbag on the top of the back of the couch and my dog got into them while we were out one night.

when we got home she was wimpering and wanted to come into bed with us.

DH picked her up and put her in bed and she spewed on him

the spew was all bloody.


we took her straight to vet emergency at the Lort Smith.


they put her straight on a drip and pumped her stomach.....


she had about 4 tablets...... and that was only a few mg less than what would be needed to kill her.


Apparently, the way iboprofen(sp?)/anti- inflammatory type drugs like nurafen work is that dissolve your stomach and gastro intestinal lining so that they are absorbed quickly into the body.


Thankfully my puppy was ok - after a week of hard core stomach ulcer drugs and being on a drip because she couldn't swallow anything because all her throat and stomach were burned...


But since then I've not bought any of those sorts of pain killer type drugs.


It freaked me out COMPLETELY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know that's a bit off topic, but my round about point is that so often we take things that are heavily advertised and they work really well so we think they're great (i know I loved my nurafen)..... we just don't always look into how it is that they work and what they are doing in your body that we don't know about in order to get the desired short term result.



I've gone back to my grandmother's remedy of vinegar on a teatowel wrapped around whatever aches.

don't know if it's just mind of matter... but it works!