Get your own Free Home PageFrom:- John Carter
The other night I had a ferocious cold and cough with much spluttering and wheezing and phlegm. Thus I reached for a bottle of your Flemeze.
It stated clearly on the outside that it had no sugar and no alcohol. I suppose diabetics get coughs too, whatever Mary Poppins had to say on the subject. Still I noted that instead of preserving the stuff with alcohol you had used Methylparaben and Propylparaben. This did give me pause, as I'm accustomed on a warm summer evening to have a nice braai and a beer, and hence I am fully aware of the effects of alcohol. I did wonder a little as to what the effects of 'paraben. Still, I suppose little children may use this medicine and a warm glow in their tums on a freezing, smoggy winters' eve may give them a dangerously subversive view of the world.
Still, with all due and proper caution I proceeded on to reading the Dosage and Directions for Use and then onto the Side-effects and Special Precautions.
Despite the amount of time and paper this is going to take, I think it is worth quoting in some detail...
Orciprenaline Sulphate
Central effects of orciprenaline sulphate include: fear, anxiety, restlessness, tremor, insomnia, confusion, irritability and psychotic states. Cardiovascular symptoms include hypertension, tachycardia, cardiac arrhythmias, anginal pain, palpitations and cardiac arrest. Hypotension with fainting and flushing may occur. Other effects that may occur include difficulty in micturition and urinary retention, dyspnoea, cough, weakness, altered glucose metabolism and hypersalivation. Headache is also common. Some patients have experienced a feeling of tightness in the chest or asthma exacerbation. Paradoxical bronchoconstriction has been reported. Cases of irritation of allergic reactions have occured, primarily in hypersensitive patients.
Bromhexine Hydrochloride.
Gastro intestinal side effects may occur occasionally with bromhexine and a transient rise in serum aminotransferase values has been reported.
After due consideration for my health and strong desire for relief, and the safety of my family, I read the leaflet a second time, poured the flemeze down the sink, and poured myself a large glass of sherry and went to bed and eventually to sleep.
John Carter.
Ps : I seem to remember my primary school teacher teaching me that the word flem has a 'p', 'h' and a 'g' but no 'f'. Also eze had an 'a' in there some where and no 'z'. Which all goes to show that this world has been run by stark raving nutters such as yourselves since time out of mind.
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