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Relieves cold and flu symptoms.
Dayquil Cold And Flu (Acetaminophen / Phenylephrine / Dextromethorphan) is a useful combination medicine that relieves cold and flu symptoms, but make sure you really need all of its ingredients.
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3.7/ 5 average rating with 1034 reviewsforDayquil Cold And Flu
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Upsides
- Dayquil Cold And Flu (Acetaminophen / Phenylephrine / Dextromethorphan) is a combination medicine that relieves multiple cold symptoms. It's good to use if you have a stuffy nose, a cough, fever, and pain.
- The decongestant (phenylephrine) has fewer side effects than other decongestants like pseudoephedrine. It doesn't raise your blood pressure and heart rate as much, or cause as much trouble falling asleep.
- The pain reliever (acetaminophen) is easier on your stomach and has fewer drug interactions than other pain medications like aspirin or ibuprofen.
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Downsides
- If you don't really need all of the medications in this combination, you're taking extra medicine and might have extra side effects for no reason.
- Phenylephrine doesn't last as long as other oral decongestants like pseudoephedrine.
- You shouldn't use it if you have high blood pressure.
- To avoid hurting your liver, you have to keep track of the total amount of acetaminophen (APAP) you're taking since it's a very common ingredient in pain and cold/flu combination medicines.
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Used for
- Cough
- Due to minor throat and bronchial irritation
Dosage forms
- Pill
- Liquid
- Liquid
Price
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$9.72
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Reviews
1034 reviews so far
81%
saidit'sworth it
38%
saiditworked well
5%
saidit'sa big hassle
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Side effects
The Dayquil Cold And Flu (Acetaminophen / Phenylephrine / Dextromethorphan) FDA package insert doesn’t have numbers about how common side effects are.
The Cheratussin Ac (Codeine / Guaifenesin) FDA package insert doesn’t have numbers about how common side effects are.
Risks and risk factors
- Liver damage
- Drinking more than 2 alcoholic beverages a day
- Taking with other Tylenol-containing medicines
- History of liver disease
- High blood pressure
- History of high blood pressure
- Taking MAO inhibitors
- Serotonin syndrome
- Using other medications that affect serotonin
- Harm to fetus
- Women of childbearing age
- Chronic cough
- History of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- History of smoking
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