Nimesulide is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) with pain medicine and fever reducing characteristics. Its indications are the remedy of acute pain, the symptomatic treatment of osteoarthritis, and dysmenorrhoea in adolescents and adults above 12 years old. It has a multifactorial mode of action and is characterised through a rapid onset of action.
It works through blockading the production of prostaglandins (a chemical associated with pain), thereby relieving pain and inflammation.