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Pairing pain relievers can be a bad mix

Certain things are meant to be mixed. Strawberries and deep, dark chocolate. Gin and tonic. But for pain relievers, paring down is better than pairing up, because it's easy to get far too much of a good thing. For instance, if you take a pill for sinus congestion on top of something else for head pain, you could cause stomach pain - or worse.

Your rule should be to never take two or more...

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