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bikerbill


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.I'm coughing lumps up, have a snotty nose and generally feel shite. So i do what every sensible person does, pop out to the corner shop for some makes you better.

As i picked up the bottle of cheap cough syrup for chesty coughs, I remembered the thread from weeks ago about robitussin and thought aha, better check the label.

So this own brand has large print easy to read list of ingredients and a warning: 5% alcohol (ethanol) - not suitable for drink dependants or alcoholics.

Now that's pretty plain and very responsible to me. Thanks Co-op.

But the well known brand next on t'shelf had no such warning, the ingredients list was in tiny print and you had to open the box and get the leaflet out to find it too was 5% alcohol (ethanol) - not plain and not responsible.

So, no other makes you better available, so it's back to the house for a virgin toddy - just the honey and lemon - but that went down the drain because I had already associated it with a hot toddy.

So it's just gallons of tea and try not to smoke too much, eat an orange and maybe time for chicken soup. Still, got the remains of a super spicy Tagine for my tea. It's so spicy it makes my lips tingle for an hour afterwards.

(Update: no chicken soup in the cupboard, only Tomato. Bum!)

-- Edited by bikerbill on Tuesday 13th of April 2010 10:27:17 AM

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Bill,

Reading the labels is a must for me.   In the Colonies over here (LOL) we can buy Robotussin Alcohol free but the majority of cough syrups including most varieties of Robotussin do contain Alcohol.

Keep looking and reading labels.  I would think (OH NO THERE"S THAT WORD AGAIN)
that the UK must have alcohol free cough meds.

Good luck in your search.

Larry,
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Good job Bill,its amazin whats in some of the stuff huh  !.Alcohol not suitable for drinking??? I dont know ,drank some "not suitable stuff in my time"Salt water gargles,yuk .vicks on my chest with a towel over it yuk,head under a towel over steam and vicks yuk<all worked though...grandma;s remedies....tea and honey ,better than yuk...smile

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Hi Bill,

Well I had a bad cough, and I needed to bring up that stuff, about a month ago.  And ditto to what Larry wrote. Some Robittussins are Alcohol Free.  I was using one called the DM version, and took it at night, and man oh man the dreams, well not dreams at all, weird ass nightmare of sorts, and I think it was Tessa that wrote on the Board, "No, dont do the ones with the suppressant, just the straight Expectorant....and I went stright to the Pharmacist, and asked him where I would find what she had recommended, used it, and the cough cleared up in a week, i was careful to just use it only when I thought I really needed it,  a bad hacking cough, and with the med. the cough became sort of doable, and it cleared.  I also just used it during the day, and without the Suppressant in the syryp, no more weird dreams.  Maybe write to Tessa, and ask her, I think she said for some reason she needs to do these meds often.
Sorry Tessa if I am wrong, but her recommendation was for the Mucilex, just the expertorant, and alcohol free.

Most pharmacies always offer the same, in generic versions, and the ingredients are identical......and all alcohol free....

What I have done in the past is, if it is a headcold, I will force myself to have little bites of horseradish, it really clears up the sinus area if only for a while.  And you probably know not to have any milk products, they are all "mucus producing"

And the best is rest my friend, as you know. Hope so much you will be back to yourself in no time......

ok, mama toni, signing out.....

Hi, went back through the Posts, and I found the one I was talking about, a whole thread on theses meds. Page 5, "nightmares from Hell"....:) oh what drama, haha.
anyway this is a link that Tessa Posted on the meds we are discussing....

http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drugs_concern/dextro_m/dextro_m.htm
thats the bad stuff, she posted some others, check it out, it you want.  Feel Better my friend.

Toodles
Toni

 







-- Edited by Just Toni on Tuesday 13th of April 2010 02:16:13 PM

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Mahalo Bill...this is sponsor sharing...higher education stuff to be remembered
and practiced always.  It also is a picture of what consumers are up against
when it comes to manufacturing, distribution and sales.  There are some who
care and some who careless.  Thanks for the journey.  Inspect those cough ups
and make sure none of them are bike parts!  LOL.  smile

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LOL - Larry called us "The Colonies." I haven't heard that since I was in the UKL years ago and some old, old Brits called the U.S. "The Colonies." Funny stuff.

Bill, if you can find it, there is an herbal expectorant that is a tincture of Osha root. One of my ex-gitlfriends is an herbalist and gave it to me once. The tincture was glycerin based, not alcohol based, and everything that was in my lungs came flying out like hornets from a burning tree.

If ya'll haven't burned them all at the stake, you should be able to find a Good Witch somewhere who can hook you up. smile.gif

Peace,
Rob


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bikerbill


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beechams All in One syrup - spawn of the devil! It's nearly 20% ABV! Stick to the tablets.

Got some all in one tabs, they're OK and drinking Bovril - almost like being at a football match, just need the Wigan kebab (three pies on a stick) and someone peeing in my boots and it'll be so accurate.

Bovril is good - basically a mug of runny gravy - don't you just get sick of tea and coffee?



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