Sugar-free, aspartame-full paracetamol suspensions?

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Just why? In the absence of obvious health problems such as diabetes, why the heck would chemists try to foist aspartame on tiny humans? How often are they actually given it for the sugar in the full-fat versions even to represent a serious health or dental risk? And why, when I ask for the full-fat version, do chemists raise that eyebrow at me?

Paracetamol is kind of bitter, but I have it on good authority that a spoonful of sugar...

Milk is full of sugar too! I wouldn't worry about a bit of sugar in medicine now and again when they are being put down every night after a feed without their teeth brushed anyway.

Just because there isn't good evidence that aspartame is bad, doesn't mean that it migh not be found to be at a later point. Suar, in the other hand, has a record going back thousands of years.

But how much sugar free medicine would a kid have to have to cause a health problem?! Mine are hardly necking the stuff regularly. Aspartame, sugar, I don't care either way to be honest when they're having 5ml doses of the stuff.

"a spoonful of sugar... "

Absolutely. Bring back the good old days when it was okay to give a child their polio vaccine on a sugar cube

I want sweetner free colour free but it's all or nothing :( y can't u get the sugar one but minus the colour ?

Sugar-free doesn't mean "safe for teeth". Still acidic.

I take the view that if they're poorly enough for medicine, they could probably do with the sugar.

Oh and milk isn't bad for teeth. Lovely experiment kicking round the internet where they put a tooth each in a cup of water and milk respectively, with no difference to erosion. Adding food into either cup caused erosion.

They don't even need to use aspartame or sugar. What about Xylitol or Stevia?

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contain only the active ingredient+a wax to hold it together.

I ALWAYS got the sugary version for dcs but now have to get sugar free as dd2 (3) is diabetic.

It does worry me that I now have to give her something I'd rather avoid but I have no choice

I'm a cruel mother who stocks up on infant paracetamol in France or Italy. Purely to avoid a baby wrestling match with a syringe full of sticky calpol but bypasses the aspartame issue too.