I have a man cold and taking my usual bowl of chicken soup washed down with a Lemsip Max but now I’m thinking… if the main ingrediant of a Lemsip is paracetamol, why don’t I just have a paracetamol? It’d cost alot less.
Whats the point of a Lemsip other than the paracetamol?
Thank you.
Now that you’ve read this, you now have a cold sorry thats just how this one works.
It also has a phenylephrine which clears blocked nose and stuff.
If you don't have a sufficiently stuffed nose, paracetamol is cheaper.
Phenylephrine has been proven to not work when ingested orally (nasal spray delivery was not part of the study).
So Paracetamol is not only cheaper, it's the exact same therapeutic effect.
Thanks for catching that. I am not familiar with this product, so just went with the described contents. Frustrating that it is legal to sell.
It doesn't actually work.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/09/why-are-ineffective-oral-decongestants-still-on-store-shelves/#:~:text=A Food and Drug Administration,is ineffective when taken orally.
Except that phenylephrine has been shown by multiple studies not to have any effect. It's only there as a replacement for pseudoephedrine, which does work, but can be used to make meth.