Question

A drug which acts antipyretic as well as analgesic is:

• A. Chloroquine
• B. Penicillin
• C. Chlordiazepoxide
• D. 4-acetamidophenol.

Answer 1

The correct option is D 4-acetamidophenol.

Analgesics reduce or abolish pain without causing impairment of

consciousness, mental confusion, incoordination or paralysis or some

other disturbances of nervous system. These are classified as follows:

(i) Non-narcotic (non-addictive) analgesics

(ii) Narcotic drugs

(i) Non-narcotic (non-addictive) analgesics: Aspirin and

paracetamol belong to the class of non-narcotic analgesics.These drugs are effective in relieving skeletal pain such as that due to arthritis. These drugs

have many other effects such as reducing fever (antipyretic) and

preventing platelet coagulation.

(ii) Narcotic analgesics: Morphine and many of its homologues,

when administered in medicinal doses, relieve pain and produce

sleep. In poisonous doses, these produce stupor, coma, convulsions

and ultimately death.

4-acetamidophenol also knwon as Paracetamol acts as both Antipyretic as well as analgesic.