Feel crappy,Bad cold. No tablets in the house. Calpol?? Lol!

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Will it work? How much should i take?
Nose dripping one side,bunged the other side. Head fuzzy and ache a bit!
Should go to bed really!

About 30ml maybe?

I worked it out once - I think it's something ludicrous like 15 sachets (but don;t quote me on that). I decided it wasn't worth it.

It'll work - tis just paracetamol after all

actually it's not that bad. 5ml is 120 mg paracetamol. I think one adult tablet is 200mg. you normally take 2 = 400 mg ie 3 and a third sachets.

Is that 3 and a half spoons?

yup - I had you on 6 spoons

YES!!

4 spoons - go for it. Been there, done that!

Kids nurofen is better tho!

lol! That would help me sleep!

I had to ring NHS Direct about this (I was pg and being v. paranoid). An equivalent adult dose of Infant Calpol is 8 x 5ml spoons. If you can swallow all of them without gagging you're a harder woman than me!

Don't know about Junior though, you need to find out what the mgs of paracetamol is per 5 ml spoon and work out the equivalent of 1000mg (2x normal paracetamol tablets) is.

HTH.

I have got kids nurofen i think.

yeah, when I say sachet I mean 5ml or one teaspoon. But I didn;t check what an adult is meant to take. one 5ml t-spoon calpol is 120 mg. but check what a standard adult does is. I don;t want to be resposnible! hope you feel better soon

8 It is infant one.
Thats great thanks.

kids nurofen - 20ml is sufficient to help you sleep - believe me!!!

yes. I'm looking at Infant too.

and if you REALLY want to sleep - 15ml of medised!!!

LOL No medised left!
Ive found Nurofen for children.

20ml tort and off to bed with you xxx

Bum can't take nurofen.It says to speak to dr first if have asthma.

bugger

calpol - 4 spoons and off to bed with you!

Olihan said 8. Not sure i can manage 8 though.

Ok 8 5ml spoonfuls taken! It was ok just extreamly sweet and got sweeter the more i took!