Paracetamol has been extensively used in both the human and veterinary clinics due to its antipyretic and analgesic properties. It is considered as a well tolerated medicine commonly used for mild to moderate pain and aches relief, and fever reduction. Since some people infected with COVID-19 experience fever, body aches and headaches, this drug has been prescribed to relieve those symptoms. It is very important to monitor the doses of paracetamol in the patient’s body under examination since the overdose results in accumulation of toxic metabolites which may cause severe adverse effects. Due to a wide use of paracetamol and the adverse effects of its overdose, it is always an interesting issue to develop suitable techniques for its quantitative as well as qualitative analysis. The development of simple, convenient, highly sensitive, versatile, fast and economic techniques is very necessary to control the overuse of this drug causing many side effects. Various techniques used for the determination and detection of paracetamol have been reviewed in this paper predominantly focusing on electro-analytical methods.

Mamta Latwal is M.Sc. from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar and Ph.D. from Kumaun university Nainital. She is a faculty in the Department of Chemistry at University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) Dehradun since 2013. Her area of research includes nanomaterials as catalysts, drug sensors, ferromagnetic materials, and natural products. She has published several research papers in reputed journals, 4 book chapters and wrote one book.