{"id":2815,"date":"2013-02-22T04:39:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T09:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2013-02-12T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T15:30:57","slug":"cough-syrup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/cough-syrup\/","title":{"rendered":"Cough syrup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My MD friends tell me there&#8217;s no effective cough medication on the market. There are OTC and prescription medicines, but none of them have been proven to really work. That doesn&#8217;t mean that they won&#8217;t give you some level of subjective relief, but they&#8217;re not like asprin or pseudoephedrine (e.g., regular Sudafed)*. <\/p>\n<p>We used to use more potent medicine. Who knows? Maybe this stuff below worked. I&#8217;m guessing it had some effect.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/coughsyrup.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"coughsyrup\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2816\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/coughsyrup.jpg 400w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/coughsyrup-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>* Speaking of pseudoephedrine&#8230; Since it is a popular material for meth labs, it&#8217;s tightly controlled (not a big deal, just need to show your driver&#8217;s license). You can get the molecularly-related phenylephrine OTC (e.g., Sudafed PE), but again, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phenylephrine#Questions_about_effectiveness\">it&#8217;s probably not effective<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My MD friends tell me there&#8217;s no effective cough medication on the market. There are OTC and prescription medicines, but none of them have been proven to really work. That doesn&#8217;t mean that they won&#8217;t give you some level of subjective relief, but they&#8217;re not like asprin or pseudoephedrine (e.g., regular Sudafed)*. <\/p>\n<p>We used to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/cough-syrup\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}