Born in the 70’s, did you have paracetamol etc?

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As a child I don’t remember being given any medicine if I was ill, only if I went to the doctors and was given antibiotics. If I was unwell I was wrapped in a blanket and put in bed with a hot water bottle. Were you given any painkillers like we give today?

Exactly the same as this. Plus whisky on gums for toothache (or could have been brandy)

either junior disprol which was soluble or a junior disprol solid with a big blob of strawberry jam to take the taste away!
milk of magnesia
kaolin and morphine
a big bottle of lucozade ok not medicine but its only time you got it big glass bottle with rustly orange film
calomine lotion for spots and stings dried to a pink powder
TCP

Dispurin (aspirin) rather than paracetemol, like others. Or lucozade (when it still had the crinkly orange wrapping around the bottle)…apparently it had magical properties and was only bought when there was someone ill in the house.

And orange iodine for scrapes on knees and elbows

Bennilyn
Junior disprin
Tcp
And the healing power of a plaster 😁

Junior Disprin was the thing back in the day. My husband who is in his early sixties must have been given a lot of it, because to this day he still refers to every kind of over the counter painkiller as Disprin even though we've never even bought Asprin in the 30 odd years we've shared a medicine cabinet, let alone Disprin!

Does anyone actually buy and use Asprin any more, other than as a preventative blood thinner?

As a PP said above, I was routinely given Malt extract and cod liver oil. I think there was a thing called Virol? This was in the early to mid 70s. We were given it by my gran mostly, not sure my mother would have bothered with any of that. I also remember the bright red cough syrup. It might have been Benylin.

And for a sore throat and swollen tonsils it was TCP poured over a teaspoon of sugar and gargled.

Hot 7 up was given for everything, if we had a pain my mother said growing pains i think we did have have disprin.i remember my baby brother getting gripe water

My uncle would give all us kids a spoon of castor oil with a dollop of honey every day when we stayed with him. Cannot bear either today!

And yes to Savlon and germolene! My primary school had two sensible fourth year pupils (10 year olds!!!) act as first aiders for fall overs and cuts and scrapes on us younger kids. You had the choice of white or pink to treat your wound and that would stop us snivelling enough to give that the necessary consideration it deserved 😁

Junior disprol I believe it was called, I remember the tiny tablets being quite sweet. Oh and those capsules they were orange cut the top off put either in water with a towel over your head or on a hankies if you had a cold .

Born 1976. Calpol as a child then disprin. Paracetamol probably later and ibuprofen. DM was a nurse and had a well sticked first aid kit, was well versed in treatment and pain relief.

Junior asprin and mum used Anadin so had then when bit older. Born 1966. Cough syrup was black but forgotten name at min, also had buttercup syrup sometimes.

I remember disprin!

Born in 1971. I don’t remember any (although I think my friend used to have dispirin at her house…) I had awful (and I mean awful) period pain (this would have been mid 80s) and just had to wait it out. The doctor told me to take evening primrose oil. At 16 I took myself to the doctor who prescribed the pill. It wasn’t until I was in my 30s and came off the pill that a friend told me I could take ibuprofen just before my period and it would help. I remember feeling a bit stupid and upset at this revelation.

come winter time mum used to make us have a vitamin c tablet every morning orange in colour and they did taste of orange
for period pain i used to have Feminax

No, I was aware of aspirin, but nothing else. My mother didn't believe in masking symptoms. Though I'm sure that would be justified for some.

Panadol and Benyllin. My brother was prone to throat infections so got them on prescription.

Lucozade and Heinz Tomato soup are definitely my childhood memories of being ill (60s and 70s). Mum used to give us cod liver oil and rose hip syrup. Don't know what they were actually meant to do. I quite liked the rose hip syrup. I also loved the smell of germoline. I remember going to visit family in the US in the 70s and trying root beer and thinking it smelled of germoline.😆

I don't specifically remember taking painkillers but disprin does ring a bell.

I think I remember rosehip syrup. In the very early days of the NHS and the welfare state, there was a clinic mothers of babies and very young children could go to to get baby milk (presumably you had to pay, but maybe it was subsidised) and some other things were handed out free or cheap. I think rosehip syrup was one of those. Concentrated orange juice was another. Mum and Dad had a baby milk tin in the house for decades after I was grown up.

Disprin for us too, but only VERY occasionally,you had to be really poorly.
orange cough syrup called Tancolin- when all came to alli hadWhooping cough so it didnt touch the sides
We drank Rosehip syrup- had it warm as a first line of cure if wewere unwell

Junior disprin, bradasol lozenge for sore throat and Benilyn or Sudafed were the only medicine I remember getting as a 70s kid. My mum was against antibiotics as she was allergic to penicillin.

I had that strange dichotomous 70s parenting experience where on the one hand I rarely got medicine and only after I’d seen a doctor but equally if I had a cold I sometimes got a tot of whisky in hot water with honey and lemon and once when I had really bad stomach ache I got brandy in hot water!

My parents (both teachers) also decided once I was in the brownies that I was old enough to be left home alone if I was ill (and I had to be incredibly ill to even get time off school) rather than taken into school with one of them and left in the staff room under a blanket (and then moved to the car at playtimes so the teachers could sit down!).

Mum’s aversion to medication unless a doctor insisted it was necessary paid off though. When I was about 8 I broke my arm badly (both bones clean through) and a few days later we were at family friends for the day. My arm was hurting a lot and there was some discussion about if I could have maybe half a distalgesic as no one had any painkillers apart from that! Mum intervened and said no!

Also I had my final polio booster at primary school straight onto my tongue as they’d run out of sugar lumps. It was truly vile!

I liked the taste of it. As well as Andrews liver salts

I think the rosehip syrup was to keep up your vitamin C. During WW2 they harvested berries, hips, etc, as supplements.

Lol you could get milk and vitamin drops from the clinic in the 90s.

Ooh I'd forgotten about rosehip syrup! That was another Grandma special.