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The best-selling medicines in Spain: What are they for?


Nolotil tops the list since 2019

A large part of the best-selling drugs in Spain are analgesics: Nolotil, Paracetamol and Enantyum are used to reduce fever or make joints and muscles hurt less.

1. Nolotil. This medicine is used for the treatment of moderate or intense post-operative or post-traumatic acute pain, of colic type or of tumor origin. It is also used in cases of high fever that does not respond to other measures or other medicines for fever.

2. Goodbye. Acetylsalicylic acid, at the dose present in this medicine, belongs to the group of medicines called antiplatelet agents. Platelets are blood components, smaller than red and white blood cells, that aggregate when blood clots. By preventing such aggregation, antiplatelet drugs reduce the possibility of blood clots (thrombi).

3. Paracetamol Kern. Also an analgesic that is used to relieve mild and moderate pain, as well as reduce fever.

4. Enantium. Enantyum is an analgesic belonging to the group of medicines called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). It is used to treat pain of mild or moderate intensity, such as muscle or joint pain, menstrual pain (dysmenorrhea), dental pain.

5. Euthyrox. It is used for the treatment of diseases and dysfunctions of the thyroid gland.

6. Parcetamol Cinfa. Analgesic used to relieve mild and moderate pain. Also to reduce fever.

7. Ventolin. It is indicated in adults, adolescents and children aged 4 to 11 years (for children under 4 years see section 3), in the following cases: -Rescue medication in mild, moderate or severe asthma. -Prevention of bronchospasm (difficulty breathing or wheezing) induced by physical exercise or before exposure to a known and unavoidable allergenic stimulus.

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8. Synthrom. It is a medicine that contains the active ingredient acenocoumarol. Acenocoumarol belongs to a group of medicines called anticoagulants, which decrease the blood’s ability to clot and therefore help prevent the formation of clots in the blood vessels. Sintrom is used for the prevention and treatment of blood clotting.

9. Orphidal. It is a tranquilizer-anxiolytic (prevents nervousness and anxiety) that acts without influencing the normal activities of the individual. It adequately complements antidepressant therapy and can be combined with antidepressant medications and other psychoactive drugs. Orfidal is used in the following cases:

– Short-term treatment of all states of anxiety and tension, associated or not with functional or organic disorders, including anxiety associated with depression and that linked to surgical and/or diagnostic procedures, and in pre-anaesthesia.

– Sleep disorders.

10. Lexatin. The active ingredient in Lexatin, bromazepam, belongs to a group of drugs called benzodiazepines. Bromazepam, administered at low doses, relieves mental tension, anxiety and nervousness. At higher doses it has a sedative and muscle relaxant effect. Doctors prescribe Lexatin to people who have symptoms of anxiety, tension, depression, nervousness, agitation, and who have trouble sleeping.

Some patients with anxiety or nervousness may also have problems with their heart rate, breathing, or digestive problems. Lexatin can also help relieve these symptoms.


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