Americans know “paracetamol” about as well as you apparently know “acetaminophen”.
They are the same compound.
“Paracetamol” is the generic term used in Europe and Australia. “Acetaminophen” is the generic term commonly used in the Americas.
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LillyPip@lemmy.ca 21 hours agoLiterally no Americans know what paracetamol is. Randomly ask anyone.
Americans know brand names: Tylenol, Advil, Prilosec, Ambien.
I’ll bet you could survey Americans and 999/100 have never even have heard the word paracetamol. Or zolpidem. Most won’t have heard anything but the brand names, and the brand names have been drilled into their heads by way of constant advertising.
US brands have spend stupid amounts of money making sure people think of their propriety name instead of the real name of any drug.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
merc@sh.itjust.works 34 minutes ago
Both are slightly less clunky words created from the corpse of “N-acetyl-para-aminophenol”
“Acetaminophen” takes the “acet” from “acetyl” and “aminophen” from “aminophenol”.
“Paracetamol” takes the “para” part, and then a few other random letters that don’t really make sence. “cet” from “acetyl”, and maybe “am” from the start of “amphenol” with the “ol” ending from the same word, ignoring that it ends in “nol”?
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Americans barely know ‘acetaminophen’ , too. Some, sure. Most know Tylenol.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I know several Americans who know what paracetamol is. Not sure it’s as rare as you think.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I know almost all my meds by the generic names because I’m broke and that’s what the pharmacy will give me. Ibuprofen, levothyroxine, etc. Alprazolam.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
I most certainly do because I’ve traveled a shit ton
SolSerkonos@piefed.social 20 hours ago
Nobody would’ve heard paracetamol, but you’d probably get some hits with acetaminophen. Not a lot, to be clear, but some.