Promoting Your Patients' Proper Use of TYLENOL® Products
You play an important role in recommending OTC medicines and advocating their proper use. The free patient tools offered below can support your efforts to teach patients how to use TYLENOL® products appropriately. These tools convey the importance of:
- Identifying the active ingredient in TYLENOL® (acetaminophen) products
- Reading the package label and following the label carefully
- NOT taking more than the recommended dose
- NOT using 2 products containing acetaminophen during the same period of time
- Understanding that all medications have risks, particularly when more than the recommended dose is taken
Downloadable Proper Use Tools
Also available in Spanish.
Designed to assist in your discussion of proper acetaminophen use, this sheet lists the active ingredients for commonly used prescription and OTC analgesics.
Coming soon in Spanish!
Pediatric proper use tools for parents are also available for free download.
Proper Disposal of Unused Medicine
In addition to medicine-disposal regulations for pharmacies, some states have community take-back programs through which patients can return unused drugs. If your area has such a program, encourage patients to contact their local pharmacy or local authority to learn how to use it.
If no take-back program is available, you may want to advise patients to follow these guidelines:
- Unless instructed otherwise, do not dispose of unused medicines by emptying them into a sink, toilet, or storm drain
- Place unused medicines in an unrecognizable sealed container, and ensure that children, pets, and others do not have access to the contents of the container
- Dispose of the container in household trash
Additional guidance for patients is available at: www.smarxtdisposal.net.