Hey, all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast.

I'm your host, pharmacist Eric Christensen, and I thank you so much for listening today.

Today, I'm going to cover naproxin.

Brand name of this medication is Naprosin.

I probably most commonly hear patients call naproxin Aleve is another brand name that goes with it as well.

As full disclosure, I have talked about ibuprofen in the past, as well as the entire class of ENSED.

So there's some of the information here that is similar to that.

But I did want to talk about some specifics

that I think are really important with naproxin as well.

So first off, what is naproxin?

It is an N-SED, non-stroidal.

You'll often hear it referred to as kind of shorthand.

And it is used primarily for anti-inflammatory, pain syndromes, fever potentially.

And those are really the big three. And it is available over the counter. So that presents

some challenges as a provider, as a pharmacist, as a nurse. You've got to recognize that people

pick up these medications on their own and they start taking them and they often don't report it to a health care professional.

Okay, so I can't stress it enough. You've got to get medication lists updated and you've got to ask patients whether they're taking over-the-counter medications and try to get that teased out because it certainly does happen.

There is variations, and I think I might have forgot to mention it with the ibuprofen podcast,

but there is variations with these medications and over-the-counter composition. So you've got something like

Advil PM or Aleve PM. This is going to have an additional medication in it. And it's usually

an older anticholinergic sedative type medication because it's supposed to help with sleep as well.

Oftentimes it's diphenhydramine,

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