Night nurse. No more *GNHQ intervening to say 'kind of' and to suggest reading the thread*

If you read the info and research papers I think you will find this is not "nanny state" biglouis.

I think the evidence is clear on this particular drug.

The nanny state strikes again!

Night nurse liquid formula is my goto when I have a bad nighttime cough following an infection. I think it’s brilliant.

I bought night nurse this week due to a hideous cough (4 weeks and counting). It’s ok but I miss Tyrozets for sore throats. Absolutely brilliant to help with a nasty sore throat but apparently it contained Antibiotics so it’s been withdrawn. Such a shame as it was so good and now we have nothing decent to help with a sore throat. I detest this wholesale removal of things that help us!

Thanks NS. I thought it had disappeared completely having had difficulty finding any for a number of years. I’ll be down to the chemist as soon as it opens.

Mulberry7- i will try that tonight..if i can find an onion.....😄

LadyGracie- covonia tastes Disgusting! 🤢🤮

You can buy phenegan according to the NHS.

www.nhs.uk/medicines/promethazine/

Oh I had never heard of it and at first I thought it was some person who came to the house at night! They withdraw things here at the drop of a hat,so to speak. That is if they ever allow it in the first place. They are real Nannies in this country, they treat us all like naughty children. Forget the impressions of free ranging, bronzed life guards .

cc - how do you know you won't need a procedure in the next (say) 3 years?

Oh this must be a sign that they are effective. Anything that really works is eventually withdrawn from sale for our own protection.

Who remembers phenegan or triludan, or co-proxomol? There was also a pain killer, the name of which I can't remember, that contained a muscle relaxant that was taken off the shelves.

We plebs cannot be trusted to weigh up the risks of such things. The nanny state has to step in.

Night Nurse is hellish stuff.

Covina reminds me of my childhood when the GP would give me the Linctus every winter due to chronic bronchitis. It's my first turn to med whenever I get a chesty cough.

Dollymixtures

This is ridiculous, don’t you think? A product which actually works and helps with coughs (I suffered for more than six months with a persistent cough) has to be withdrawn. I believe it’s not good if you’re going to undergo surgery with a general anaesthetic so why can’t those people just be told not to take cough medicines? Instead of penalising everyone as usual!

If you're going to have any sort of procedure they always speak to you about what medications you take anyway, it would be very simple to include these medications.
And, let's face it, if you have a streaming cold you're not going to have any sort of procedure are you?

UK lady told me that if you cut an onion in half and leave it at your bedside table, your cough will disappear overnight. Guess what! She was right! It worked for me anyway.

It’s Pholcodine they are removing, that’s the stuff that helps coughs

Are there any healthy cough suppressant remedies? When you have a persistent cough that produces no sputum you really ought to ask the GP about its treatment.

I took Day and Night Nurse capsules because I am diabetic but I guess if Night Nurse liquid is still available I will have to take that. I always took Gees Linctus before they removed that.

I think it is a bit like the aspirin thing with children under 12. A rare reaction and it is removed from every child. When our boy needed something in the middle of the night where there was no ibuprofen in sight, our GP said he had to make us aware of the risks of giving aspirin but he was sure it would be ok. It was.

Day Nurse is the only thing which reasonably suppresses my colds; my nose always turns into Niagara ☹️. I shall be sorry to lose it.

I think that what GN are trying to say is, ‘read the thread and you’ll realise that the op is incorrect’

It was actually me who reported it for its inaccuracy

The original title said ‘Night Nurse, No More’
And then the opening post went on to say that Night Nurse has been withdrawn; which it hasn’t.

Nor do I.

Was this the original title of the thread?
I have now read and re-read it, but don't understand it.

FannyCornforth

ixion

GSK Night Nurse is not listed, it would seem.
It doesn't appear (unlike the Day Nurse) to contain pholcodine, in my reading.

Quite right.

Indeed.

Just found this GagaJo - it's a more recent study than the one I read-
I will go away and read this one now!

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27859358/