EEWWWW EEEE YUCKS and general disgustingness
i am full of phlegm!so i have a blocked nose and a cough. boohoo.
i went to the doctor and got some medicine.
that day, i drank 10ml of cough syrup as instructed.
after i swallowed it, a disgusting, stinky smell rose up from the depths of my throat.
it stank to high heavens. it was superbly, supremely, stupendously stinky lar!
it was also a familiar kind of stink. but i couldnt quite place it.
curious, i read the label.
it says:
" every 5ml contains:
- 10mg of diphenhydramine HCL
- 125mg of AMMONIUM chloride (caps are my own, for emphasis)
- 50mg of sodium citrate"
AMMONIUM chloride. AMMONIUM chloride!! i've been drinking ammonia??!!
i wonder. how can stomach juice (HCL) and a component of my urine cure me????
so i asked my friend who is currently in sydney u studying pharmacy.
she said that ammonium chloride and sodium citrate are commonly used together in cough medication to help in the expulsion of phlegm. but there is no real evidence of this.
and when they say no real evidence, they basically mean that probably, animal testing has been done with the drugs but nothing else.
these drugs are still used because there has been a long tradition of success and nobody has died from it yet.
i find many things wrong with this!! long TRADITION? ahem. i'm consuming a medication based on tradition?
that sounds like a kind of old wives' tale! u know, like in some tribes living in the forest, they have a tradition of eating tree roots to cure infertility or something.
i suffer from ammonium fumes every night because of an old wives' tale!
so. i've been drinking ammonia for 4 nights already.
p.s i swear, the ammonia smell is familiar because it brings me back to my upper sec/JC 1st year days when i had to suffer chem lab. it is not familiar because i smell it everyday in my pee. my pee smells like roses.
posted by stickfigure @ 10:55 AM
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