Doctors urge Calpol makers to change the taste.
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A leading doctor has warned that children could be at risk of accidental overdose from Calpol and other brightly coloured drugs that ‘look more like milkshake than medicines’.
Doctors say that Calpol’s syrup-sweet strawberry taste and pink colouring also makes it ‘almost irresistible’ to some youngsters.
Does this guy even have children. When mine are ill they will take Calpol but you try and give them something else which is not sweet tasting. I cannot get them to take it without a very big battle.
If children are getting hold of this medicine and overdosing on it. It is the parents responsibilty to put it out of reach.
If they made Calpol less palitable for children. I can see more of them being admitted to hospital because they refuse to take something to make them better.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2924545/Calpol-dangerous-make-taste-like-strawberry-sweets-Doctors-urge-manufacturers-make-medicine-appealing-children.html#comments
Doctors say that Calpol’s syrup-sweet strawberry taste and pink colouring also makes it ‘almost irresistible’ to some youngsters.
Does this guy even have children. When mine are ill they will take Calpol but you try and give them something else which is not sweet tasting. I cannot get them to take it without a very big battle.
If children are getting hold of this medicine and overdosing on it. It is the parents responsibilty to put it out of reach.
If they made Calpol less palitable for children. I can see more of them being admitted to hospital because they refuse to take something to make them better.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2924545/Calpol-dangerous-make-taste-like-strawberry-sweets-Doctors-urge-manufacturers-make-medicine-appealing-children.html#comments
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And I'd be surprised if they could get the darn thing open. Once the threads become congealed in all the sugary medicine even I am beat by the damn child-proof cap at times.
Personally we prefer paed ibuprofen. Kids like the orange flavour and we find it's more effective than Calpol at getting their temperature down.
ETA: I remember another medicine I used to have sometimes, a yellowy-green liquid, I guess some kind of antibiotics. That used to give Calpol a run for its money in the taste department. Not a sugary sweet taste but a really unique lovely taste.
A kid would have to drink a couple of bottles to overdose. I've seen a child at A &E who had downed a whole bottle and was sent home as theres really not enough paracetamol in a bottle to be harmful.
That's the one I'm talking about. I think it smells awful
It doesn't taste as good now as I remember. Probably because it's sugar free.
Why do people like them have to piss all over everybody's chips all the time? I'm sick of them. They're worse for my health than any fry up, alcoholic drink, drug, sweet tasting medicine or cigarette combined >:(
They really need to keep the taste pleasant, all my medicines are kept in a cupboard none of my wee ones would try and get too and surely if a child is in pain, feeling poorly or temperature is high then let them have a medicine that tastes nice and is easy going down than give them something awful that they might spit out and therefore not helping the poor wee things.
You must have been a very strong and clever 5 yr old.
As a Mum I even had trouble at times undoing the cap.
;-)
It surprises me as well this was many years ago now but I do remember getting the bottle out of the cupboard which was high up and getting it open and drinking it. My poor parents must of been going out of their minds when this happened. Calpol does taste nice which is what attracts kids to this medicine but really I think the flavour should change. I was lucky to recover from that overdose and be healthy today
As for the child safety caps I dont find them that hard to get open
I never once thought of taking them though or anything else I wasn't given to take.
Some child safety caps are easier than others.
It's like the safety caps on household cleaners too. Some are almost impossible to undo at times.
;-)
On the other hand, parents could ensure that they always put anything potentially dangerous away, out of reach, as soon as they've finished with it - like we did when our children were young.
You frown on the use of Paracetemol or on the use of Calpol ?
Then Paracetemol is a very effective anti pyretic and pain relief ? I just wonder if you frown on relieving pain and fever or is it the brand you frown on ?