The pharmacist shared some key ingredients that are most effective in battling winter illnesses
A pharmacist has shared his expertise on which products work best in battling cold and flu - and which ones he's deemed as a "waste of money". Abbas Kanani, the superintendent pharmacist at Chemist Click, understands that Christmas can be prime time for infections to spread around.
According to the pharmacist, there are three key ingredients that work the best, depending on what you're feeling. The first is a decongestant for a blocked nose, the second is a cough expectorant, for mucus coughs, and the third is a cough suppressant, for dry, tickly coughs. "What you'd need is another ingredient for your dry, tickly cough which is a cough suppressant like Dextromethorphan, and this works in the opposite way to Guaifensensin. It helps to suppress the cough reflex. So by the same token, if you have a chesty cough and you take medicine for a dry cough, essentially you're not helping get rid of what's on your chest and this can increase your chances of having an infection.
Top Health Stories Today "I actually find these things more effective than tablets," Abbas added. "That's because they're local as opposed to systemic so they're a lot more potent and have a direct action and work quite quickly. If you're bunged up and you use one before bedtime it will clear your nasal passage."
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