Not a doctor, this is how it was explained to me by my doctor.
Paracetamol/acetaminophen has a therapeutic dose that is uncomfortably close to the fatal dose, but is otherwise as safe as any drug can possibly be. So long as you don’t take too much.
Ibuprofen is also relatively safe, but it has a number of ways that it can do damage even at the therapeutic dose, if you are taking it all the time.
The main one is that it depletes your mucus lining in your stomach, which can lead to bleeding and death (used to be a big problem here in Aus when codeine combined pills were available without prescription). It’s also harder on your kidneys and liver.
Completely fine at therapeutic doses taken as per instructions and not mixed with alcohol. But having it every day is going to be much worse for you than the paracetamol and almost certainly lead to health problems.
Paracetamol/acetaminophen has a therapeutic dose that is uncomfortably close to the fatal dose, but is otherwise as safe as any drug can possibly be. So long as you don’t take too much.
Ibuprofen is also relatively safe, but it has a number of ways that it can do damage even at the therapeutic dose, if you are taking it all the time.
The main one is that it depletes your mucus lining in your stomach, which can lead to bleeding and death (used to be a big problem here in Aus when codeine combined pills were available without prescription). It’s also harder on your kidneys and liver.
Completely fine at therapeutic doses taken as per instructions and not mixed with alcohol. But having it every day is going to be much worse for you than the paracetamol and almost certainly lead to health problems.