Pholcodine Linctus B.P. (OTC Medicines in general)

Member Name: sandra_dee

Product:	OTC Medicines in general
Date:	15/03/03 (8721 review reads)
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Advantages: it works, price, available OTC

Disadvantages: unless you suffer from the side effects non that i can see

Being winter and suffering from the usual coughs and cold I thought I would write about a cough medicine that I found a couple of years ago.

It’s called Pholcodine Linctus B.P. and is available from Boots the chemist under their own label.

The packaging says it is a cough suppressant for the symptomatic relief of unproductive coughs – translation - it relieves dry, tickly coughs.

It comes with all the usual advice and contradictions.

Check that the cap seal is not broken
Unless directed by your doctor – adults and children over 12, two 5ml spoonfuls
Children 5 – 12, one 5ml spoonful

This dose may be taken, if necessary, 3 or 4 times daily.
This is not recommended for children under 5 years old unless advised by your doctor

DO NOT EXCEED THE STATED DOSE.

Do not take if allergic to any of the ingredients or if you have liver disease.
If symptoms do not go away, talk to your doctor.
If you take too much, talk to a doctor straight away
This medicine may cause drowsiness, if affected do not drive or operate machinery
Avoid Alcohol
Talk to your doctor before taking this medicine if you suffer with chronic lung disease or if you are taking any sedative medicines.

Talk to you pharmacist or doctor if you are pregnant or breast feeding before taking this medicine.
This medicine may occasionally cause nausea, vomiting, rash, sputum retention and constipation.
If concerned or anything else unusual happens, talk to your pharmacist or doctor
And finally
KEEP ALL MEDICINES OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN.

Active Ingredients
Each 5ml contains, Pholcodine ph, eur, 5mg and also contains sucrose, purified water, citric acid, chloroform, glycerol, domiphen bromide.

Having got all that out of the way. The main thing, does it work? For me it has, I’ve tried many cough medicines over the years of varying
prices and have found that many do work but are expensive. Being a single parent I am not prepared to waste money on expensive cough medicine. So when I found this at only £1.69 for 200ml, I thought I would give it a try. It did seem cheap so I was a bit dubious. But was very surprised.

It is simply packaged, it doesn’t even come in a box which will help keep the price down.

This should not be a deciding factor I think it tastes nice too, although recommending it to a friend she said she had tried it and hated the taste but it did work

So if you want a cheap but effective cough medicine give this one a go, you may be a surprised as I was and i didnt suffer from any of the side effects that were mentioned.

This product is certainly cheaper that getting something on prescription. I don’t have to pay for my prescription but feel that a cough is not something you should be visiting a doctor for.

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