TheraFlu Severe Cold Nighttime Caplets - Non-Liquid Cold and Flu Relief
Written: Nov 07 '09 (Updated Nov 07 '09)
Product Rating:
Pros: good relief of flu symptoms
Cons: not convinced of effectiveness against nasal congestion
The Bottom Line: This was an easy way to relieve flu symptoms and get a good night's sleep. Not so sure it's as effective as other medicines against nasal congestion.
AliventiAsylum's Full Review: Theraflu Severe Cold Nighttime Caplets, 24-Count B...
When I get sick with a nasty cold or the flu, a staple of mine over the years has been TheraFlu. In general, I like the hot liquid as a medicine as it’s almost like drinking a hot toddy. My daughter, on the other hand, doesn’t share my fondness for hot liquid medicine. She prefers to take a pill and be done with it. That is why, when the house was struck with the flu this year, Mom got out of her own sick bed and went to the drugstore and picked up some TheraFlu caplets.
Thinking she’d need some sleep, one of the caplets I purchased were TheraFlu Severe Cold Nighttime Caplets. These provide nighttime relief of nasal congestion, cough, runny nose, sneezing, body aches, sore throat pain, headache, and fever. Although with the flu she wasn’t exhibiting any signs of nasal congestion or runny nose, the cough, sore, throat, fever, and body aches were all flu symptoms she had.
These were easy to take. Adults and children over 12 years take two caplets every four hours. It is not recommended for those under 12 unless directed by a physician. I found that giving them to her about 8 PM lasted through the night and she got a good night’s sleep. The directions state to take with plenty of fluid, and it was easy to take with some ginger ale. They didn’t bother her stomach at all.
This did a great job relieving those symptoms she had and allowing her to sleep. There was a degree of sleepiness still present the next morning, but I’m not sure if that was the after-effects of these caplets or if it was the effects of the flu itself.
Although I can’t really speak to how well this works as a nasal decongestant, I know that it is a newer formula and can be found in the aisle with the cold, allergy, cough, and flu medicines. In my experience, these formulas haven’t been effective against nasal congestion. I usually need to get the medicine for nasal congestion that’s sold by the pharmacist and that I need to show my driver’s license for. Those contain pseudoephedrine, which is not an active ingredient in TheraFlu Severe Cold Nighttime Caplets.
The active ingredients here are acetaminophen Usp 325 Mg which acts as a pain reliever and fever reducer, chlorpheniramine maleate Usp 2 Mg which acts as an antihistamine, dextromethorphan hydrobromide Usp 10 which acts as a cough suppressant, and phenylephrine hydrochloride Usp 5 Mg which is the nasal decongestant.
This was also effective on her cough, although she didn’t report the extreme tightness and pain in her chest which was a symptom I had with the flu. It seemed to affect each one of us differently. What was in these caplets, although designated for a severe cold, met her needs for her flu symptoms and allowed her to get a good night’s sleep just when she needed it.
I still have some left and I have no qualms about keeping it around and using it again this winter should a severe cold strike us. I’ll update information on the effectiveness of these on nasal congestion when that happens, but truth be told I am skeptical of the effectiveness on that particular symptom. Take the need for nasal congestion relief out of the equation, and you have a medicine that’s effective against flu symptoms. It worked quite well for us in that regard.
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