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I'm also irked by the fact that OTC cough suppressants like dextromethorphan are equally useless.
by patwolf 5y ago
I'm also irked by the fact that OTC cough suppressants like dextromethorphan are equally useless.
- hammock 5y agoCitation? Dextromethorphan works very well for me. (Also DXM is a recreational drug which is why it's always sold OTC with either Tylenol in it or as an extended-release formula)
- cardiffspaceman 5y agoChris Rock has a few brilliant, hyperbolic, minutes on how in some neighborhoods "tussin" is a cure-all.
- throwaway48375 5y agoBack then I'm pretty sure robitussin had codeine not DXM.
- ConceptJunkie 5y agohttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11045895/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11045895/
- djrogers 5y agoIn the vast majority of cases for my family, Dextromethorphan is a miracle drug. We're in the middle of cold and allergy season here, and my kids (and I) stop coughing within 5-10 minutes of taking an appropriate dose. Once every 3-4 years I'll get a cough so bad that DXM won't fix, and when that happens my doc gives me a prescription for a codeine based cough syrup that fixes it (and renders me useless as a human being).
- genewitch 5y agoI dunno, codeine makes me love my family even more, as an anecdote...
- mrguyorama 5y agoMucinex (Guaifenesin) fixed all my illness cough problems. It makes your mucus thinner and produces more of it to make your coughs "more productive" which means you finally get that junk out of your throat. Eliminates tickly throat coughs and also is useful in pretty much all situations that involve coughing. It's a genuine magic bullet for me, where no cough suppressant has ever worked, through my entire 30ish year existence.