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JoyFilled Warrior · ‎09-02-2022

"Don’t forget to be kind to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!" TLB

LTT1 · ‎03-09-2010

As far as my experience with this med, I’m glad it's being pulled. I have never had one bit of luck with it. It was useless for me!

IMO, this would be considered adding ineffective and useless chemicals to my body that I really do not need.

~Have a Kind Heart, Fierce Mind, Brave Spirit~

kze · ‎03-09-2010

Nasal sprays will not be included in this proposal.

ROMARY · ‎04-28-2010

Consider that I'm not necessarily referring to this particular OTC drug:

'All one has to do' is to websearch various European associations re: various OTC drugs, medicines and see what's been discontinued/pulled off of their market(s).

Same with various diseases, medical issues, etc.

Lots of information out there re: what worked/works and what didn't work, etc.

'More or less', 'Right or wrong', 'In general', and 'Just thinking out loud ' (as usual).

chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

A doctor friend told me that over 20 years ago. One of my girls was sick with a cold and cough and I asked what cough medicine I should buy and she said none of them. That all OTC cough medicines were completely useless . They do nothing. And recently my daughter was told the same thing by her son's pediatrician. There's no evidence to support than any OTC cough medicine is effective as a cough suppressant or as an expectorant. My question is why have they been allowed to advertise them with egregiously false claims for all these many decades?

ROMARY · ‎04-28-2010

I've suggested this many times.......

If an adult person isn't allergic to honey, it works wonders for coughs.

Give it a try!

But, BEWARE! Keep away from babies and youngsters.

I don't know for sure, but I recall reading that honey isn't or might not be appropriate for babies, young children.

Research and check with their doctors.

'More or less', 'Right or wrong', 'In general', and 'Just thinking out loud ' (as usual).

4kitties · ‎03-09-2010

Had a most wonderful pediatrician when my girls were small. He always told me not to use over the counter cough medicine. He said it was useless.

“I heard the sound I had to follow”
In Your Wildest Dreams by Justin Hayward

CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

@ROMARY wrote:
I've suggested this many times.......

If an adult person isn't allergic to honey, it works wonders for coughs.

Give it a try!

But, BEWARE! Keep away from babies and youngsters.

I don't know for sure, but I recall reading that honey isn't or might not be appropriate for babies, young children.

Research and check with their doctors.

Honey can cause botulism in babies under a year old.

Icegoddess · ‎03-19-2010

@chrystaltree wrote:
A doctor friend told me that over 20 years ago. One of my girls was sick with a cold and cough and I asked what cough medicine I should buy and she said none of them. That all OTC cough medicines were completely useless . They do nothing. And recently my daughter was told the same thing by her son's pediatrician. There's no evidence to support than any OTC cough medicine is effective as a cough suppressant or as an expectorant. My question is why have they been allowed to advertise them with egregiously false claims for all these many decades?

The reason they are considering pulling meds that include that ingredient have nothing to do with suppressing coughs. It's the decongestant they replaced pseudoephedrine with in OTC decongestant meds with. They only replaced the ingredient because pseudoepherine is used in making meth and so they put meds with that ingredient in the pharmacy.

Whether children's cough medicine does or doesn't work to suppress coughs has nothing to do with that ingredient.

I figured out that ingredeint didn't work as a decongestant years ago and I only get pseudoephedrine from the pharmacy now. I think it's ridiculous that they tried to basically gaslight the american public that this ingredient worked as well as the ingredient they put behind the pharmacy counter.