Posted on 02/27/2010 1:35:14 PM PST by truthfinder9
Many people, victims of the public education system, still believe that anything they buy or the doctor gives to them is safe, or that the Government is out there keeping them safe. Here's one of many examples of the FDA acting only after people are sickened or die. Perhaps people should learn how they get sick to begin with, and how to naturally prevent it, then they wouldn't need gallons of drugs a year.
From Green Barbarians by Ellen Sandbeck:
Some members of the American College of Chest Physicians reviewed decades' worth of studies and concluded that there is no scientific evidence whatsoever that the active ingredients in most over-the-counter cough medicines...have any effect at all on coughs. The doctors did find, however, that over-the-counter cough medicines have a very strong placebo effect.
In 2007, the CDC announced that over a two-year period, fifteen hundred toddlers and babies were treated in emergency rooms because of bad reactions to cold or cough medicine; three of these infants died...the pharmaceutical industry voluntarily withdrew all "infant" cough medications from the market. Also in 2007, the FDA warned parents that cough and cold medicines should never be given to children under the age of two, and advised against giving them to children under age of six.
Yes I have a great remedy for that. Few people will ever try it though. :)
BTW, why were you reading up on the common cold? ;)
“Garbage - dextromethorphan has been shown in numerous studies to suppress cough. Its about 1/2 as potent as codeine and lacks the opiate side effects.”
Agreed. I did my own personal study a few months ago. Couldn’t sleep for all the coughing until I took some.
I don’t know why the medical community is so against cold meds these days. They have valid uses.
BTW, there are other ways to relieve symptoms in a child that small.
a) above a minimum age, all of these med’s dosages should be determined by body weight. That applies to adults, also.
3 children die in 2 years? Considering the stupidity of so many parents, and the size of the group we are talking about, that is an insanely low number.
Can anyone in our society put numbers in perspective?
I tend to agree, and actually hate to over-medicate. My sister convinced me to use the “neti pot”, which I now swear by. I also have heard that water makes the best expectorant, and reckon there’s some truth in that too.
I think we know what works for us and what doesn’t. I don’t need a ‘nanny’ study to tell me, lol.
NyQuil [spelling?] works wonderfully for me, stops the cough.
I haven’t ever used the neti pot. I may have to look into that.
The FDA and the drug companies are hardly allies. But I wonder how we all survived all those years, and why more of us aren’t dead, given the poisons they are apparently peddling at CVS.
Yeah, thanks FDA.
Sorry about the kids who died, but now my grandson, who could have gotten dimetapp and stopped his sniffles and sneezes before they got bad, now ends up with bronchitis and in the hosp. It was the same with my kids, due to allergies. I gave all of them dimetapp. They got some sleep and so did I—and we all survived. Now all we’re supposed to do is keep the shower running and create steam. Meanwhile, the kids are suffocating b/c they can’t BREATHE in the first place!
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Omommiecare knows best!
They think they do. Just like all the ‘studies’ on food. Wait 6 months and there will be a reverse ‘finding’.
Vitamin D-3, the best placebo of all. My wife is an elementary schoolteacher and has always brought home whatever colds and flu were going around at school. This year we commenced on a regimen of 10,000 iu of D3 daily, equivalent to an hour or so of sunshine in the summer, This school year H1N1 and a couple other types of flu made the rounds and a couple of cold type things. Wife brought none of it home.
Out of control diarrhea can be fatal.
Sometimes and illness or whatever can cause body systems that normally work for the good, to go awry. In the case of uncontrollable diarrhea it can cause severe dehydration and even death.
Out of control diarrhea can be stopped with Parapectolin (or a generic equivalent). In an emergency when a doctor is unavailable, your pharmacist may let you sign for it, especially if you describe the problem. It has to be signed for because it is a class IV drug and contains a minute amount of opium.
Diarrhea can cause muscle spasms in the large intestine and the Parapectolin calms them for long enough for your body to regain control.
Love these idiots...it’s your fault if you get sick. If you had done the right thing; etc. etc. you would not need cough medicine.
[it’s your fault if you get sick.]
Lol, not always. I was on a shuttle boat heading to Cosumel and a local child in the row in front of me turned around and coughed right in my face!
That was the worst cold I ever had as I almost never get them.
That isn’t what I was referring to. I was talking about normal bouts with diarrhea. I think of the diarrhea commercials where they can’t wait to get the bathroom.
Of course you are right. If you are having extreme bouts of diarrhea you should see a doctor.
Sorry Sara, mistook your comment!
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