#Ireland’s equivalent of #Lemsip seems to be Solpa, which contains a decongestant. They do sell Lemsip, but even the Max version only has paracetamol as an active ingredient. 🍵 🍋

It took five decades from the 1970s for the FDA to finally admit last year that oral phenylephrine, used as a decongestant in Sudafed and Lemsip, doesn't actually do anything.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-two-pharmacists-figured-out-that-decongestants-dont-work/

#ColdAndFlu #Phenylephrine #FDA #Decongestants #Lemsip #Sudafed #ClinicalPharmacology

How Two Pharmacists Figured Out That Decongestants Don’t Work

A loophole in FDA processes means older drugs such as those in oral decongestants weren’t properly tested. Here’s how we learned the most popular one doesn’t work

Scientific American
#Thursday will mostly be fueled by copious quantities of #Lemsip. 🤧
Where does one keep their #Lemsip?
Hot drinks shelf
8.3%
medicines area
91.7%
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Savner å ha #Lemsip i huset når jeg har forkjølelse med feber og hodepine. Noen som har en oppskrift på en hjemmelaget variant?

Er vel paracet med plenty av C vitaminer og sitron smak?

#Norsktut

Reports on #Weibo of Chinese people bulk buying medicine like #Lemsip #LemsipMax, and food like tortilla chips, to ship to China.

I've been informed there may be a shortage of medicine as people starting to get sick again due to relaxation of #Covid #Covid19 lockdown policy.

#China's #CCP unfortunately has been playing vaccine nationalism with people's lives, which was why they had to have the harsh #Lockdown policy before.

Without #Lemsip I would’ve been a snotty puddle on the floor beneath my desk today. Lemsip FTW! 💊
Akkoma

Chuffing day five of a heavy cold. I thought I’d ordered the 24 hour variety, but someone must have messed up my order!

#Snot #HotToddy #Lemsip