i want some so bad i’m literally shaking from the withdrawal. it’s for 2 year olds so i’m sure my liver can handle a few glasses every now and then as a treat.

by vulturesdescend

48 comments

  1. If all medicine tasted this good nobody would ever be sick

  2. My 9 month year old looks at calpol like Super Hans looks at crack

  3. Now what Calpol need to sell is the Placebo edition. One with just the syrup and flavour. Its a cure all as it is. But they can increase their sales this way.

    Kids are dumb. They won’t know.

  4. The disappointment when your mum pulled the liquid nurofen out the cupboard instead of calpol.

  5. My 10 week old had his first jabs this morning. Gave him this kiddy crack shortly after, looked liked he had just been to Amsterdam. Now he’s out like a light.

  8. I was such a calpol fiend back in the day. Even faking illness at non school times for a taste of that stuff.

  9. The fact your old enough to post on here whilst young enough to know the taste of this product. Makes me feel so so very old !

  12. My toddler won’t take Calpol. It’s basically baby crack, why won’t you just swallow it damn it

  15. I used to drink buttercup syrup when I was a kid, to the point where I’d feign a bad throat just so I could have more.

  16. This, and the banana flavour penicilin…gods I miss that stuff. Also, the disappointement when you got older and had the version that wasn’t sweet and was just crunchy. Ugh that stuff made my stomach flip.

  18. The full sugar one is still delicious. We’re coming out of winter now so the parents are putting away the autumn / winter decorations – the calpol, nerufoen, and six thousand injectors

  20. Pub in Dublin ( Jackie’s I think(used to sell a cocktail that tasted like Calpol and they served it in a ( cleaned and recycled ) calpol bottle .

  21. The banana cough syrup does it for me thou don’t think I could do a glass of it lol 😂

  25. The original Nurse Harveys Gripe Water was amazing!

  27. As a small kid I climbed on top of the wardrobe to reach the Calpol, and proceeded to feed my 18 month old brother the whole bottle (I thought I was being nice, not a murder attempt) He had to go to hospital and have his stomach pumped.

  28. The greatest disappointment of my childhood was when I was given Calpol 6 plus rather than regular Calpol.

  31. Child: “I don’t feel well”

    Me: “Sorry I only have the sugar free one”

    Child: “Actually I think I’m okay”

  32. PSA: You liver can not handle an overdose of paracetamol. You’ll feel fine until the week after when it will start to hurt the entire time you are dying of liver failure. If you waited until it starts to show symptoms, the only cure is a liver transplant, which you won’t get as it was self-inflicted, putting you way down the waiting list.

    If you or your child have (or you think they may have) overdosed on paracetamol, proceed directly to your nearest A&E, do not pass go, do not collect £200, until a medical professional tells you it’s okay. If you wait until symptoms start *you are already dead*.

    If you are thinking of overdosing, please [seek help](https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/behaviours/help-for-suicidal-thoughts/) before you do. Or if you feel you absolutely must, pick something less agonizing for you and those around you than a paracetamol overdose.

  33. You wait till you have a violent hangover and it’s the only paracetamol left in the house. It’s something like 15 spoonfuls for a single adult dose of that stuff.

  34. 120mg/5ml, so 40ml is equivalent to 2x500mg tablets. Very expensive though.

    …That said, don’t fuck with paracetamol.

  35. 2yo hates strawberry and will only have orange. Can’t blame her the strawberry is nasty as fooook man

  38. I have a friend nearly 40 years old and this still is the only way he will take paracetamol

  39. I must be the only person on Earth that thinks this stuff tastes horrible 👀

  40. That is so real. Don’t actually drink a glass of it though, you will die and from what I’ve heard, it’s not a good way to go

  41. Tixylix and cough sweets for me! My head of year called my mum in concerned why I always have a cough. She was confused because she doesn’t hear me cough. I’d suck on them bad boys and fake coughs here and there.

    Wasn’t smart because it ate up all of my pocket money. Then one day I just stopped enjoying the sweets. I used to have a little taste of Tixylix here and there but then alcoholism came knocking.

  43. I genuinely thought I was a freak for liking Calpol and was guarding my tasting of the stuff for no medical reasons as a deep, dark secret, but it seems like there are dozens of us!

  44. Is it wrong to lick the spoon after you give it to your child?

  46. Calpol has nothing on Piriton syrup.

    Note: PiriTON not PiriTESE, which is an abomination.

  47. I asked my 2 year old if he wanted honey or jam in his porridge and he suggested calpol which honestly doesn’t sound like a bad idea!

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