AboutDr. Ravindra Bhaskar Ghooi Expertise I can provide information on drugs and medicines, their actions, uses, interactions and adverse effects. To avoid confusion, generic names of
medicines may please be provided. I am a pharmacologist, having worked
on animal and human pharmacology, and presently I am the Dean of Bilcare Research Academy, where we teach courses on clinical research. We dont work on saturdays and sundays, hence questions reachng me on these days will be replied on Monday, please bear with me.
Question I found that Adco Dol helps me sleep at night and had been
taking 2-3 tablets every night for the last 2 years.
Can this dose harm my liver?
Thanks
Answer Hi Anne,
Adco dol contains the following ingredients:
Paracetamol 450 mg
Codeine Phosphate 10 mg
Caffeine 45 mg
Doxylamine Succinate 5 mg
The doxylamine in this combination produces sleep other ingredients ar not helping you but can cause toxicity on long term use. Why not use plain doxylamine? It is a short acting antihistamine that causes sedtion. Doxylamine succinate is used in general over-the-counter sleep-aids branded as Somnil, Dozile, Donormyl, Restavit and Unisom-2, in the US, so you can buy it without a prescription.
Ravi Ghooi
