Tylenol Cold & Sore Throat Daytime - Worse Than The Medicine Mother Force-Fed Me
Written: Apr 20 '05 (Updated Oct 12 '08)
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Pros: none
Cons: taste, diarrhea, daytime medicine that "may cause drowsiness"
The Bottom Line: The awful taste combined with a horrendous side- effect alone are enough for me not to recommend this. But there's more...
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When I woke up the other morning feeling absolutely horrible from coughing all night with a tightness in my chest, I wanted immediate relief. However, I knew I had to get the kids going and go to work, so I didn’t want something that would make me drowsy. At some point in time, my husband must have bought Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation. It was the only thing I could find that indicated it would relieve the symptoms of my cough and not make me drowsy, so I took it.
The dosage of Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation is pretty high - two tablespoons. In the cup which came with the medicine, it seemed like a lot. The liquid id a clear blue and thin, not thick like some of the suspension medicines out there. The idea behind the Cool Burst Sensation is that is provides a cooling sensation, I suppose for the sore throat. I can’t tell you if it works on sore throats since I didn’t have one. I can tell you that even if I did, I would never, ever take this medicine again.
As soon as I took my first taste of Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation, my first instinct was to spit it out. The taste seems to want to be a minty, menthol taste, but it’s horrid. I forced myself to finish it but the taste it left behind in my mouth was awful. I went for my morning cup of coffee, but that didn’t taste right after drinking this, so I drank a glass of water to get the awful taste out of my mouth.
Did I feel relief from my coughs? Some. I didn’t get real relief until I had Robitussin CF Cough Syrup later that day. However, the damage had been done with the two tablespoons of Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation that I’d had earlier in the day. As I sat by the computer at work I heard my stomach rumbling and soon had to make a run to the bathroom. This continued for most of the late morning and afternoon. I know it’s not from the other medicine because I’ve been taking that since that first dose with no problem. The cause of my diarrhea was the Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation.
As if that wasn’t enough to turn me off the medicine, upon researching this review I found out that although Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation is marketed and labeled as a “Daytime” medicine, there is a warning for it on the Drugstore.com listing that states “marked drowsiness may occur”. Although I didn’t get affected in that way, it seems that the whole idea behind a daytime medicine is that I don’t get drowsy. Had I know that, I never would have taken it to begin with.
If you have a real enemy you want to torture, this would work great. However, for those of us who are really looking for cough, sore throat, or cold relief there are much better tasting medicines out there than Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation that don’t have me running to the bathroom all day. If I am taking a daytime medicine, I am expecting that it will allow me to function for most of the day. Between the warning about drowsiness and the lovely side-effect I experienced, there’s no way I would tell anyone to take this if they wanted to be able to go about their business.
Ingredients
The active ingredients in Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation are Acetaminophen 1000 mg in each 30mL = 2 Tablespoonfuls, Dextromethorphan HBr 30 mg in each 30mL = 2 Tablespoonfuls.
The inactive ingredients in Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation are citric acid, FD&C blue #1, flavors, polyethylene glycol, propylene glycol, purified water, sodium benzoate, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, sorbitol, sucralose, sucrose
Product Warnings
Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation should not be given to children under twelve years of age.
Do not use Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation with other medicines containing acetaminophen.
Do not use Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation if you are now taking a prescription monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) (certain drugs for depression, psychiatric or emotional conditions, or Parkinson's disease), or 2 weeks after stopping the MAOI drug. If you do not know if your prescription drug contains an MAOI, ask a doctor or pharmacist before taking this product.
Do not use Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation with any other product containing acetaminophen.
Ask a doctor before using Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation if you have glaucoma, cough that occurs with too much phlegm (mucus), chronic cough that lasts as occurs with smoking, asthma, chronic bronchitis, or emphysema, or trouble urinating due to an enlarged prostate gland
When using Tylenol Cough & Sore Throat Daytime with Instant Cool Burst Sensation marked drowsiness may occur; avoid alcoholic drinks as alcohol, sedatives and tranquilizers may increase drowsiness; be careful when driving a motor vehicle or operating machinery; excitability may occur, especially in children.
This medicine is approved for purchase with a FSA (flexible spending account)
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© 2005 Patti Aliventi
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