Hi
It is incredible just how many pharmacies there are here, on many busy streets there will be several.
Within 10 minutes walk of where I live, there is probably more than 20.
Not that it is particularly unhealthy living here, just seems to be a very common shop type and a Thai obsession with taking loads of different tablets whenever they have a very minor ailment..
Unlike in the UK, pharmacies here can and do sell antibiotics without prescription.
Useful in one way, perhaps unwise in another.
Prices are generally reasonable.
You can buy unrestricted amounts of paracetamol & ibuprofen, again unlike the UK.
You cannot however buy in a pharmacy anything containing codeine, it is a restricted drug, so things like nurofen plus ( ibuprofen + codeine ) co-codamol ( paracetamol + codeine ) cannot be bought.
A hospital pharmacy may be able to supply it.
Long opening hours, many pharmacies being open until 10.00 PM/midnight and there is at least 1 24 hour one that I am aware of, which would suggest there is probably a few more.
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