Paracetamol sales may be restricted, but a ‘fine balance’ is needed for pain management

Australians might not have their go-to pain relief at their fingertips for much longer. Photo: TND/Getty/Panadol

Paracetamol, a staple of most Australian medicine cabinets, could soon be much harder to buy as the country’s regulator mulls the dangers of the common painkiller.

Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) met this week to consider limiting the sale of paracetamol products after an increasing number of poisonings and deliberate overdoses.