Childhood medicines

[Hooper68]

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We always used to have Minadex after we'd been ill which was a tonic
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Also a orange flavoured throat lozenge which the doctor used to prescribe if you'd had athroat infection.

[Chris-T]

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I hated that pink aniseed tasting medicine, loved penicillin and also Galloways cough syrup. I could never take tablets even on a spoonful of jam always heaved.

[staffslad]

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A previous poster mentioned Liquafruita. Yes, I remember that. My mom would have a bottle around and give it to me when I had a cough or cold. There were at least 2 flavours--the one I remember best may have been flavoured with garlic or onion or something similar--not very nice.

Anyone remember Delrosa? Not sure exactly what it was but I was given it regularly--maybe a vitamin drink?

I suffered from bad hayfever in summer until about 15. The doctor gave me Ephadrine tablets. Yuk they were horrible. My mom used to cut a milky way and hide it inside, but it was still awful. No use-by dates, just a bottle of the things--I was using tablets that the chemist had given us probably 8 years before.

Sea Legs for car sickness.

[staffslad]

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Another one...Dequacaine throat sweets. They made your tongue go numb. Very good for sore throats. I haven't seen them around for a while so might not be available now.

Sanatogen vitamins. Small, sphere shaped, fruit-flavoured and a little crumbly.

[darren]

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[Arran]

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That shampoo for head lice that smells like a durian fruit.

You would be amazed how many people consume cough medicine like a drink. Some varieties are high in alcohol.

Lucozade was originally sold in chemists shops as a medicine rather than a drink but that was before my time. Consuming it as a drink back then was very questionable and enough to get you into trouble at school.

[Richard1978]

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During the prohibition period in he USA it was common for people to drink cough medicine for the alcohol content, as it were exempt from the ban.

I've heard of people treating throat lozenges as sweets.

[Arran]

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I've heard of people treating throat lozenges as sweets.

Millions of people do that. Victory, Fisherman's Friend, Jakeman's Throat and Chest, Strepsils.

Does anybody remember Miner's Mate and Grays Herbal Tablets?

[staffslad]

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I think I remember Gray's Herbal Tablets.

[Richard1978]

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I remember someone used to bring bags of "Uncle Luke's Tablets" into school to share out.

I was trying to find a shop that sold them, & when I asked my My her eyebrows were very raised.

[Arran]

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Was there a medicine to kill worms in the intestines that tasted truly revolting? I think it came as a powder that dissolved in water. It might even have been the same formula as the worm medicine for dogs you can buy from vets.

[DSCOMAN]

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Some gems there, Gripe juice ;-)
Junior disprin - little pink tablets remember those ?
Delrosa - was 'rose hip syrup' for vitamin C - there was also Ribena and a slimmer bottle called Vit-C , and Lucozade was sold in chemists in yellow cellophane.

[darren]

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COLD MEDICINE.

[Richard1978]

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Some gems there, Gripe juice ;-)
Junior disprin - little pink tablets remember those ?
Delrosa - was 'rose hip syrup' for vitamin C - there was also Ribena and a slimmer bottle called Vit-C , and Lucozade was sold in chemists in yellow cellophane.

I remember we used to get C-Vit as often as Ribena, but they stopped making in the mid 1980s.

[staffslad]

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Thanks for mentioning Delrosa. I can remember drinking umpteen bottles of the stuff when I was a nipper but didn't know what it was.

I associate Lucozade with being ill. I remember the sellophane-wrapped glass bottles bought from chemists, but I don't think I ever drank any when I wasn't actually recovering from illness. Wasn't 'Lucozade aids recovery' a slogan used by the company making it?