5 Nov 2025

Are you taking the correct dosage of paracetamol?

From Afternoons, 1:15 pm on 5 November 2025
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If you're just about to pop a Panadol tablet - you may want to pause first.

New research by Auckland University shows many of us are taking too much paracetamol.

It found a third of us commonly take more than the recommended dose of two painkiller tablets at once.

Meanwhile 11 percent of us commonly exceed the daily limit of eight tablets a day.

To talk about this more - chair of General Practitioners Aotearoa Dr Buzz Burrell is with Susana.