Dimetapp DM Cold & Cough Elixir

Pros: Works on cold symptoms and quiets cough in most cases.
Cons: Taste.

With all the up and down weather we've had this winter, colds were inevitable and I expected them. Usually when my kids get colds, they come about a week apart, just when one is getting over one, another one gets it, so cold medicine is always in the...

Pros: No Phenylpropanolamine in the new formula. Clears congestion and runny nose. Non-drowsy formula
Cons: Pseudoephedrine--can cause very excitable kids. Grape taste is not enough to cover the medicine taste.

Despite the new formula without the Phenylpropanolamine which has been noted to cause stroke in young children, Dimetapp continues to offer a variety of cough and cold products over the counter. The newest release has helped my 6 year old with her cold...

Pros: It worked to some extent
Cons: My kids were up all night

I have twin boys who will be 11 months old on March 3, 2001. They were sick last week and we took them to the doctor. She prescribed some medicine and them suggested that we pick up a bottle of Dimetapp DM Cold & Cough Elixir to help with the...

Pros: It is a trusted product.
Cons: FDA has ordered it off the drugstore shelves

Attention Consumers:

Since many of epinions readers have indicated this is one of their favorite nonprescription cold remedies, I caution you that the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has issued a public health advisory concerning the risk...

Pros: none really
Cons: no sign of relief for colds

I have tried Dimetapp DM Cold and Cough Elixir more than a few times,and I can't understand how this product can be recommended by Doctors. I'm sorry but everytime I have used it for my older kids,it did'nt work,and still does'nt. I have a two year old...

Pros: cute shape
Cons: rather large and in only one flavor

There is no place that I could find to place a review about the Dimetapp Get Better Bear Sore Throat Pops. Since this is the place for Dimetapp Cold and Cough medicine, and this review is about a medicine for the cough due to a...

Pros: nice color
Cons: terrible taste, minor relief of symptoms, expensive

Acetaminophen can cause liver damage in your child!


Being a 32 year old mother of four children, ages ranging from 15 1/2 months to 9 1/2 years then you experiment, try, sample and either approve of a lot of...

Pros: the excellent grape flavor--even my medicine hater likes it
Cons: left me very woozy and buzzed out

I purchased this because my son's pediatrician recommended it and, while it seems to work pretty well for the kids (I have an 8 year old and a 5 year old), I may rethink giving it to them after my own experience with it last week.

I had a cold...

Pros: really helps to relieve cold syptoms
Cons: $7.00 for 4 ounces!

Just recently I picked up a bottle of Dimetapp Cold and Cough Elixir on the suggestion of a friend. She had said that it knocks your child on their butt, calms their cold symptoms and helps them get the rest they need ( and the rest I need for that...

Pros: Easy to swallow, good taste, comparable pricing, effective results
Cons: None that I can see.

I love this medicine! Dimetapp is a mother's best friend when their child is sick with a cold and/or cough. As a mother of 3 very headstrong and opinionated boys I have tried all brands and types of children's medicine, but none have had results as...

Pros: works well for about 3 hours
Cons: kind of expensive

Let me begin by saying, I am a Registered Nurse with years of experience. Nothing you take is going to get completely rid of all your cold symptoms except time. Dimetapp is a good medicine to help you wait out a cold. It relieves runny and stuffed up...

Pros: did what it claimed it could do, to the letter
Cons: did not work as well when I was older; silly commercials

I used Dimetapp fairly regularly as a child, in the latter years of elementary school, for a seasonal allergy cough. I also used it a few times later in life, choosing the cough syrup again rather than the gel-tabs (shown on Epinions as the...