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Did you know we can’t have cold medicine with anxiety/depression meds?!

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Yesterday I developed quite the cold and decided to take some Tylenol cough cold and flu medicine. If you’re on an SSRI (Paxil, Prozac, etc) DO NOT. Apparently the dextromethorphan in medications like Tylenol cough cold and flu can cause a bad reaction called seretonin syndrome? Who would’ve thought!

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Sianlenthall

I did not know this! Thankyou 👌xx

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GMason

I would highly reccomend 2000mg of vitamin c daily if you have a cold it'll help a lot :-)

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Ctate96 in reply to GMason

Going to get some tonight!

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GMason in reply to Ctate96

Excellent :-) do you take magnesium and vitamin d too? :-)

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flaxxy703

i think mucinex blue is ok with guaisefesin only

Thank you 4 the info. Hope u feel better!

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