That's why my kids get a small dose of adult medicine now.
Who knows what the dopey reporter may have been trying to say - that few COLD medicines reduce the other cold symptoms (nasal congestion and drainage)?
All that most OTC medicines do is mask symptoms to make you more comfortable. Of course, you stay sick longer. Our bodies were designed to fight off and eliminate illness. Anti-diarrheal medications are one that I REALLY don’t understand. If your body wants rid of something don’t try to hinder it.
Never mix aspirin with alleve. Never mix tylenol with alcohol. The first will ruin your kidneys, the second will ruin your liver.
And I choose to never use over the counter cold medicine. It kills brain cells.
There are a host of safe alternative remedies available for colds and flus. Big Pharma, in cinjunction with the MSM, keeps this information out of public awareness as much as possible.
Oh, please. Guaifenesin works like a charm on chesty coughs, and has to my personal knowledge since the 1980s. Ditto Chloraseptic cough drops, especially the nasty green ones that completely deaden the throat from your wisdom teeth down to your esophagus, and make your tongue go numb. Why would they want to deny little kids relief?
I have found a swallow of Bailey’s stops my cough better than any “syrup.”
And I don’t drink, not normally, so it’s not an excuse for Bailey’s :)
A physician told me the best expectorant is water.
a) above a minimum age, all of these med’s dosages should be determined by body weight. That applies to adults, also.
3 children die in 2 years? Considering the stupidity of so many parents, and the size of the group we are talking about, that is an insanely low number.
Can anyone in our society put numbers in perspective?
I think we know what works for us and what doesn’t. I don’t need a ‘nanny’ study to tell me, lol.
NyQuil [spelling?] works wonderfully for me, stops the cough.
Love these idiots...it’s your fault if you get sick. If you had done the right thing; etc. etc. you would not need cough medicine.