| 摘要 |
<p>A pharmaceutical composition comprises a combination of a selective or specific COX 2 inhibitor or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or derivative thereof and an opiate or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or derivative thereof, for example a combination of meloxicam and codeine, as active ingredients, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. It may include a centrally-acting cyclooxygenase inhibitor such as paracetamol or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts or derivatives. The pharmaceutical compositions are used in methods of providing symptomatic relief or treatment of pain, in an algesic and/or hyperalgesic state, with or without fever, in particular that associated with inflammation such as that associated with trauma, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, non-inflammatory myalgia or dysmenorrhoea.</p> |
