Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid Keeps My Kids Sniffle-Free and Awake
Written: Mar 25 '05 (Updated Oct 12 '08)
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Pros: gets rid of runny nose and fever without drowsiness
Cons: no additional dosage information for over age 11 or 95 pounds
The Bottom Line: I'll be keeping this around from now on for those mornings when my kids wake up with a runny nose.
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| AliventiAsylum's Full Review: Children's Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid |
This has been a horrible year for colds in our family. When my children get colds, I hate to make the choice between allowing them to go to school with a runny nose or somewhat drowsy. Fortunately, Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid makes it so I don’t have to make that choice.
One particularly nasty cold hit us all when we were about to leave for a ski vacation. I threw all of the cold medicines I had in a bag, but I didn’t want to my children anything which would leave them drowsy when they were about to hit the slopes for the day. We stopped in the CVS in town when we arrived and I grabbed a bottle of the Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid.
My 9 year old daughter used Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid all week and never felt drowsy. Our second morning there she woke up with a slight fever and I cancelled her class for that day. By the afternoon when I went over to pick up her sister, she was bouncing around and ready to hit the slopes. I give a lot of credit to the Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid for knocking out the fever that quickly and bringing her back to a normal behavior.
I haven’t tasted it, but my 4 year old son can sometimes give me a hard time taking medicine. He takes the Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid without any protest. The syrup is a thick red and takes some time to drink out of the little cup supplied with it. There have been times when I have had to hold him down and force him to take something, but he takes the Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid easily.
The Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid is supposed to last 4-6 hours. I’d say that’s about right as I would see symptoms beginning to re-appear usually after about 5 hours.
Although Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid is labeled as being good for children ages 2-11, I have used it when my 14 year-old gets a cold with a scratchy throat. She doesn’t always like to swallow pills, and when her throat is feeling scratchy I don’t blame her. She has huge tonsils normally and when a cold strikes, sometimes swallowing pills can become difficult. I have given her the 2 tsp. Dosage for those 6-11 years of age (48-95 pounds) and it works on her pretty good as she is only 105 pounds.
With three children, ages 14, 9, and 4, it’s good to have something around that I know I can count on when they wake up in the morning with a runny nose. Keeping Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid is a great way to be confident that even if they wake up sniffling in the morning, they’ll make it through that school day.
Ingredients
The active ingredients in each teaspoon of Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid are Acetaminophen 160 mg (pain reliever) and Pseudoephedrine HCl 15 mg (nasal decongestant). Inactive ingredients are Acesulfame potassium, carboxymethylcellulose sodium, cellulose, citric acid, corn syrup, D&C Red #33, FD&C Red #40, flavors, glycerin, purified water, sodium benzoate, sorbitol, xanthan gum.
Product warnings
Do not use Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid in a child who is taking a prescription monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) (certain drugs for depression, psychiatric, emotional conditions or Parkinson's disease), or for 2 weeks after stopping the MAOI drug. If you do not know if your child's prescription drug contains an MAOI, ask a doctor or pharmacist before giving this product.
Do not use Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid with any products containing acetaminophen.
Ask a doctor before use if the child has heart disease, high blood pressure, thyroid disease, or diabetes.
Stop using Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid and ask a doctor if new symptoms occur, fever gets worse or lasts for more than 3 days, redness or swelling is present, nervousness, dizziness or sleeplessness occurs, or pain gets worse or lasts for more than 5 days.
Keep out of reach of children.
Taking more than the recommended dose (overdose) of Children’s Tylenol Plus Cold Daytime Liquid may cause liver damage.
This medicine is approved for purchase with a FSA (flexible spending account).
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© 2005 Patti Aliventi
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