When did Calpol get invented?

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I was just reminiscing about being ill as a child and my mum giving me a dissolvable aspirin in a glass of orange squash. It tasted vile!

I don't remember taking paracetamol for pain relief until I started my periods at 13, and even then I had to ask my mum to get some in and then learn to swallow them whole! Initially she gave me a small glass of brandy and hot water- odd choice for a teenager, but we had no painkillers in the house!

I'm just wondering a what point did calpol become so ubiquitous, and aspirin stopped being used as pain relief in children?

I guessing it might have been the 80s at some point?

80s Calpol was so delicious. When I went round to a friend’s house we used to open the bottle the family kept in the larder and have a tiny lick.

Medised was commonly used to knock kids out on long flights back in the 90s/00s. Nobody thought anything of it.

Years ago, our US doctor ‘hinted’ at using kids Benadryl for long haul flights.

He wasn’t wrong.

Born in early 80s, Calpol and Tixylix were the medicines of my childhood.

I remember the long thin cylindrical measuring tube very clearly. I could never get the delicious last drops out!

no 'proper' medicines for us as my mother believed (still does tbh) in moon cycles, naturopathy and homeopathy.
I remember a horrible onion syrup that was given for fever or earaches. disgusting stuff.

I think calpol and other things were only available over the counter/off the shelf after my childhood.

I’m 50 and definitely had Calpol as a kid, my sister and I loved it as it was so sweet. We also loved Gripe Water too.
My dad would crush paracetamols and hide it in a spoonful of jam or what he would call ‘butter balls’ - basically a spoonful of butter rolled in sugar 🤢
One thing I distinctly remember as a young child in the 70’s is sharing a room with my sister who had regular chest infections and mum lighting a Wright’s coal tar burner - anyone remember those?

My DM had psoriasis and used Wrights coal tar - vile stinky stuff (and did nothing).

70's baby here and it was junior disprin. I remember the withdrawal of it when I was a teen

I used to get paracetamol crushed up in a spoonful of jam in the ‘80s/ early ‘90s. It tasted about as nice as you might expect.

My mum also believed in homeopathy. I remember the liquid tasting disgusting, but the arnica tablets being quite nice just totally ineffective.

I was born in 1978 and don't remember having Calpol. My mum used to cut paracetamol tablets in half for me.

I remember disprol that fizzed in water and I was born in 90s

Omg Tyrozets!! There's a blast from the past. I loved those. Disprin not so much though

I’m gutted they got rid of tyrozets. Honestly the best thing ever

I was born in 1980 and grew up with crushed paracetamol on a spoon of jam, but have very vivid memories of banana antibiotics!

God this has brought back memories. I was born 86 and definitely remember stirring that bloody aspirin until it had dissolved and it was rank.

I too now wonder why I wasn't given Calpol. Because I definitely remember being young and having Calpol as well so wonder what happened on the occasions I had the aspirin 🤔

I was born late 80s, I remember having calpol and had never seen aspirin at all - the only time I had heard of aspirin mentioned was in old books. I was aware that it was something you took for a headache but no idea other than that. My mum took paracetamol or nurofen.

In fact last year I visited Scotland and was surprised to see aspirin as the only painkiller option on the shelf, I bought some, because I had a headache and they didn't have anything else, but I'd never taken it before.

I wonder if calpol was quite expensive perhaps?

Was reminiscing about this with DH just the other day, and I revealed, to his astonishment, that I never had any medication as a child! First time I did was when I broke my arm at 12 and I had to take Sulphadene every few hours on prescription. But before then, even when I was what my mum described as 'feverish', I just stayed at home til it went away!

Junior aspirin that tasted of orange. I think you could chew them.

Child of early 70's and never had calpol. Never saw it or heard of it till had my own dc in early 2000's.

My cousin and her friends did this. The friends parents all rushed their kids to hospital but my aunt shover her fingers down my cousins throat and she puked it all up 🤣

Haliborange is the thing/medicine/vitamin I remember most

I remember Junior Aspirin, little orange tablet, when my children were small. I don't remember being given anything as a child.

We had junior disprin, it was dissolvable.

Don't remember it ever being mentioned in the 70's or 80's. Neither me nor my siblings were given Calpol, or paracetamol, and I don't recall any of my schoolfriends mentioning it either. I wasn't aware of it until fairly recently. 15 years ago, max.

We used to get a very rare soluble Disprin, but only if you had an obvious temperature so it was clear you weren't 'at it'.

@Sixmonthcruise Yes, I remember the Wright's vaporiser with the little tea light candle and that funny block that you poured the stinky liquid into. We had one when we all got croup.