Like people in most countries, Japanese self medicate less than Americans. I accidentally stumbled across a great example of this. I happened to have a bottle of Tylenol that was purchased in Japan and one that was purchased in the States. The Japanese box has the dose listed in English, the rest is in Japanese.
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| Tylenol purchased in Japan. |
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| Tylenol purchased in United States. |
I'm not sure if you caught it but on the Japan bottle the does is 300 mg, you are to only take one pill at a time with a maximum of 3 pills per day for a total of 900 mg. On the US bottle, the dose is 500 mg, you can take 2 pills at a time and the max per day is 4000 mg. Nope, I didn't accidentally add a zero. The US over the counter dosage is over 4 times higher than in Japan. I also feel that Americans are way more likely to exceed the dosage limit that is listed on a bottle.
What do you think this says about Americans?
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