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Benylin cough medicine con😩

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I just wanted to warn other 'coughers' to save your money!!!
I have had a chesty cough for over two weeks and having used the Benylin chesty cough medicine for a couple of days without any improvement thought I'd see if there was a different product to try. There on the shelf in the local chemist was a Benylin mucousy cough medicine costing £5 which I bought.
Later that day after I had taken some I read the packaging to see what the ingredients in each one were and was shocked to find that the two medicines were identical!
I phoned Johnson and Johnson to see if they would reimburse my money and to inform them of my concerns. They would not give me my money back but said they will pass on my concerns. They said they sell the same medicine in different packaging so that people who don't understand that a chesty cough is the same as a mucousy cough! I suggested that they just label one box with 'Chesty/Mucousy Cough' instead so other people aren't like me and pay double for the same product!
I have had a chesty cough for over two weeks and having used the Benylin chesty cough medicine for a couple of days without any improvement thought I'd see if there was a different product to try. There on the shelf in the local chemist was a Benylin mucousy cough medicine costing £5 which I bought.
Later that day after I had taken some I read the packaging to see what the ingredients in each one were and was shocked to find that the two medicines were identical!
I phoned Johnson and Johnson to see if they would reimburse my money and to inform them of my concerns. They would not give me my money back but said they will pass on my concerns. They said they sell the same medicine in different packaging so that people who don't understand that a chesty cough is the same as a mucousy cough! I suggested that they just label one box with 'Chesty/Mucousy Cough' instead so other people aren't like me and pay double for the same product!
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Mucous is pretty simple - you learn it in GCSE biology; they can't be held responsible for your level of education or knowledge - surely you would have asked a pharmacist if you needed assistance?
And there is quite a lot of medical evidence to state cough medicines don't really work.
Not just for medicines either, many brand names also make products for supermarkets.
Oh, and cough medicine is not recommended. Complete waste of money.