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All right. So ibuprofen is the drug of the day today. I have previously covered insides

in the past, but I wanted to dig into more specifics on this medication. So first off,

brand names that you're going to see used in clinical practice, Advil and Motrin.

Those are by far the most common.

And you'll hear patients talk about these as well.

So definitely a nice one to know the brand name there.

Classification, it is an insid, as I mentioned.

So it's got analgesic properties, antipyretics, so it can manage fevers.

And that's really mostly what it's going to be used for.

So pain relief, you know, fever relief, as well as associated with that pain,

obviously anti-inflammatory or inflammation relief there as well.

Mechanistically, how it does some of those things. So ibuprofen is technically

classified as a non-selective insid, which means it inhibits Cox 1 and Cox 2. Ultimately, that

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