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Reply With QuoteDJT, no OTC meds do anything for a cough. I don't know how they get away with advertising that junk, because none of it does anything to help with a cough.
Many years ago, I stopped into a pharmacy on my way home from work, because I had a bad cough and wanted to pickup something for it. After looking at all the cough meds, I looked up and noticed that the pharmacist was watching me. I walked over to him and asked him if the cough meds were any good, and he said no, they were all pretty much worthless.
He then asked me what type of cough I had, so I told him. He asked for my driver's license, and then he went into the back and mixed up something. He came back out and gave me this bottle of orange liquid, and told me to take it as needed.
I went home, took one teaspoon of it, and my cough disappeared. I mean, it never came back! I noticed on the bottle he gave me that it contained 5% codeine. That's what helped. Ever since the government stepped in and stopped drug companies from putting codeine in cough syrup, the cough syrups have been worthless.
What they should have done was to require that you be at least 21 to purchase any cough syrup with codeine....maybe keep the cough syrup behind the counter, and dispense it to people when they showed some ID to prove their age. I mean, jeez, a lot of pharmacies sell booze, and they require you to show ID to buy that, so why not do the same thing with cough syrups?
