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Cheapest over the counter drugs

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  • 19-01-2019 11:31am
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    kingstevii
    Registered Users Posts: 294 ✭✭


    Where's the cheapest place to order the likes of paracetamol and ibuprofen? Even in larger orders..


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    locum-motion
    Registered Users Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    Do you mean online?

    It's illegal under Medicinal Products (Prescription & Control of Supply) Regulations. If you look carefully, any Irish pharmacy websites only allow you to order things that, legally speaking, are not Medicinal Products.

    And if you're talking about ordering from foreign websites, it's illegal for you to import Medicinal Products from another country without the appropriate licenses.


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    palmcut
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭palmcut


    Pharmacies are restricted in the amount of Paracetamol that you can purchase because of the potential for severe liver damage if the recommended dose is exceeded.


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    kingstevii
    Registered Users Posts: 294 ✭✭kingstevii


    Im just stick of being stung, when you can buy it for near nothing in asda up the North


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    locum-motion
    Registered Users Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    kingstevii wrote: »
    Im just stick of being stung, when you can buy it for near nothing in asda up the North

    Different country, different laws!


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    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    This place does 24 paracetomol for 90cent, they have a few locations

    https://www.purepharmacy.ie/

    my local pharmacy does 24 for 1euro and have sold me 48 before

    In some places you have to ask for the cheapest generic ibuprofens behind the counter, they probably hope people will buy the smaller packs or branded ones out on the shelf.


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    locum-motion
    Registered Users Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    rubadub wrote: »
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    In some places you have to ask for the cheapest generic ibuprofens behind the counter, they probably hope people will buy the smaller packs or branded ones out on the shelf.

    In a pharmacy, ALL Medicinal Products are required to be stored behind the counter.
    (ie: If an Pharmacy Inspector finds a pharmacy with (for example) 12 packs on Nurofen out on the front of shop shelves, the pharmacy will be told to move them and if they don't the Pharmacist can be brought up on Fitness To Practice charges.)


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    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    locum-motion wrote: »
    In a pharmacy, ALL Medicinal Products are required to be stored behind the counter.
    (ie: If an Pharmacy Inspector finds a pharmacy with (for example) 12 packs on Nurofen out on the front of shop shelves, the pharmacy will be told to move them and if they don't the Pharmacist can be brought up on Fitness To Practice charges.)

    Yet in supermarkets aspirin, paracetamol etc are on open shelves.


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    mazwell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 150 ✭✭mazwell


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Yet in supermarkets aspirin, paracetamol etc are on open shelves.

    You can only buy ibuprofen in a pharmacy. Any pharmacy only medicines have to be stored behind the counter e.g. 24 packs of paracetamol. You can't buy 24 packs in a supermarket


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    locum-motion
    Registered Users Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Yet in supermarkets aspirin, paracetamol etc are on open shelves.

    Which makes the fact that they cannot be on open shelves in the pharmacy a bit stupid, doesn't it? However, it is the law.


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