![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
And another thing....
Jan. 30th, 2006 09:09 amDon't know why this started bothering me last night, but it did. Remember those cough syrup commercials, for Robitussin or Vicks 44D, something like that, where the main point of the ad is how well the cough syrup coats? "Ooh, this one is so much thicker, look how well it coats, it must be the better one!"
A serious flaw in that logic struck me last night. Unless I've been taking cough syrup wrong the last twenty-eight years, you swallow it. So it's "coating" your ESOPHAGUS. Your DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. Now, I don't know about you, but when I get a cough, it's from my lungs. My RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. The whole "it works better because it coats better" thing would only really be true if I were pouring the cough syrup down my TRACHEA into my lungs. Which I don't. Should I be?
Or maybe I should just lay off the medication altogether. :-P
A serious flaw in that logic struck me last night. Unless I've been taking cough syrup wrong the last twenty-eight years, you swallow it. So it's "coating" your ESOPHAGUS. Your DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. Now, I don't know about you, but when I get a cough, it's from my lungs. My RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. The whole "it works better because it coats better" thing would only really be true if I were pouring the cough syrup down my TRACHEA into my lungs. Which I don't. Should I be?
Or maybe I should just lay off the medication altogether. :-P
