Cough cough - the precautionary principle at work again.
Over-the-counter cough medicines are to be pulled from supermarket shelves amid fears that they are dangerous for toddlers...The agency moved to ban certain decongestants, expectorants, cough suppressors and antihistamines, 12 "active ingredients" which manufacturers have been using for decades but which have potentially life-threatening side effects.
Around 50 further products currently authorised for toddlers will have to be relabelled to warn buyers that they are not suitable for children aged two or below.
List of cough medicines to be taken off shelves - Telegraph
The MHRA spokesman added: "It is not a panic measure, it is a precaution.
"Some of these products have been on the shelves for 40 years and we have not had as many adverse reactions as the Americans have."
What I want to know is what happened to the proper Benylin that did make you drowsy, they all advertise "non-drowsy formulation", when I'm suffering from a cold I want to go to bloody sleep not "operate machinery". A glug of Benylin and a large glass of red wine and you could barely make it up the stairs before falling into a long satisfying sleep, now you have to stay awake all bloody night coughing like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and wishing for death.