Check your cough syrup and decongestants

[conuly]

A study found something that suggests dextromethorphan cough suppressant can worsen COVID-19.

Not to worry - dextrometrorphan, for cough suppression, works about as well as a placebo. You're better off with honey.

Comments

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I'm understanding that it is, for those it works for, more a mucus thinner.

Did they ever specify if aspirin is fine, counter indicated or anything? Everything I heard was from the more Modern pharmacology.

[conuly]

You'd have to google that.

[melannen]

Aspirin may or may not be fine - last I heard (via TWiV, anyway) there are points in the progress of the disease where blood thinners are bad, and points where they are good. I wouldn't worry unless you're already showing symptoms.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Yeah, I'm figuring that I'm only asymptomatic if it's considering the lives of others and Not Affected when I'm a contained system. It's this cat in a box question of wondering if there is a physicist in the room that brings it up.

I'm just old enough that I remember when not all fevers could be treated the same and the word had to spread by soap opera.

[greghousesgf]

that's odd, I've used that cough medicine and it worked fine for me (I have not been coughing at all recently though)

[conuly]

Placebo effect?

[gatheringrivers]

Cough syrups that come with DM usually also have something I can't have.

I've gone to straight up Mucinex - I've found I cough less when there's less dripping crap down the back of my throat. (Upper respiratory things being what they often are with me.)