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Interesting thing I learned from a European nurse when my Dad was in the hospital: What is called "Acetaminophen" in North America is called "Paracetamol" in Eu
by sigmaprimus 7y ago
Interesting thing I learned from a European nurse when my Dad was in the hospital: What is called "Acetaminophen" in North America is called "Paracetamol" in Europe.
Anyone know why this is?
- jammaloo 7y agoI did a quick dig into the wikipedia article, and it has the roots for the names as follows: Both acetaminophen and paracetamol come from a chemical name for the compound: para-acetylaminophenol and para-acetylaminophenol. No real reason for why one took off in one area, versus the other, just what happened to stick! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol#History
- skissane 7y ago> What is called "Acetaminophen" in North America is called "Paracetamol" in Europe Not just in Europe, actually in most of the world. The international standard name (International Nonproprietary Name or INN approved by the WHO) is paracetamol. For some drugs, instead of using the international standard name, the United States uses its own alternate naming system, the United States Adopted Name (USAN). A handful of other countries (most notably Canada and Japan) follow the US naming convention and call it acetaminophen too; the vast majority of the planet follows the WHO standard and calls it paracetamol.