I have a man cold and taking my usual bowl of chicken soup washed down with a Lemsip Max but now I’m thinking… if the main ingrediant of a Lemsip is paracetamol, why don’t I just have a paracetamol? It’d cost alot less.

Whats the point of a Lemsip other than the paracetamol?

Thank you.

Now that you’ve read this, you now have a cold sorry thats just how this one works.

  • kirklennon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    They say they contain a combination of paracetamol, phenylephrine hydrochloride, and caffeine.

    Incidentally, the US FDA has just completed updated studies on phenylephrine, more rigorous than when it was first introduced, and determined that when taken orally it is fully metabolized before it makes it to the sinuses and is completely ineffective. It’s going to disappear from shelves soon.

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      Which is something anyone who needed psuedoephedrine but got phenylephrine could have told them decades ago.