Lemsip "Max"

[Old Greg]

Only had cognac, no cloves so made it with Cognac, manuka honey hot water and slice of lemon. Very nice.

Repeat until you feel better.

And take the ibuprofen.

[russell]

Repeat until you feel better.

And take the ibuprofen.

Just have one I think, or Ill end up rather drunk, don't have ibuprofen either.

[Platypus]

A lot of countries force drugs makers to put the antidote to paracetamol poisoning in the paracetamol pills, making it much harder to kill yourself with them, the antidote stops it messing up your liver while doing nothing to stop the therapeutic affect etc – the only reason they don’t do that here is the very small additional cost per pill which has always sounded crazy to me. As little as a 25 % overdose of paracetamol can kill you, so you need to be very wary of anything you take that may have paracetamol without you being aware of it. One of the worst aspects of death by paracetamol overdose, especially those who do suicide this way, is that its routine to wake up in hospital and be “fine” and conscious for a few days while being unsavable and dying from liver failure, so many live a few days regretting their overdose but too late for the medics to do anything.

Nasty stuff.

^ indeed.

Good post.

I agree that it's just bonkers not to make all paracetemol the "safe" type. Well, not so much bonkers as criminal.