Please help me win this discussion on medicine

[Man]

True or false....tylanol, motrin, BC powder, Nyquil etc.. do not contain medicines that help to cure you, but rather just help to mask the pain while your body fights off your cold.
The wife is always so persistant that I take tylenol when I am feeling ill so I don't get the baby sick an I get better quicker

[gingib]

Yes for the most part. They mask the pain and may lower your fever and inflammation temporarily

[Dakota7493]

I would agree with that. Over the counter stuff does nothing for the most part. Everything you listed up there will reduce a fever some what, maybe make you less achy and in the case of nyquil, put you to sleep. But none of them do anything to speed up a cold, flu or anything like that.

[Rack Ranch]

Isn't that curing you of your pain?

[Playa]

I'm not in the field of medicine- so take this with a grain of salt. I am fairly well studied.
It really depends on your definition of "cure".

Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory and will reduce systemic inflammation which alleviates the pain. But it doesent resolve the cause of the inflammation to begin with.

Tylenol is a COX-2 inhibitor which means it prevents the production of prostaglandins which can cause pain, inflammation and fever. But again it doesent treat why the body is producing excess cyclooxygenase (COX) which is then converted into prostaglandins

[jerp]

Just suppresses symptoms while the underlying cause runs it's course.

[LupCad3]

Cold has to run its course. All the meds you listed just help you get through it.

[gingib]

Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory and will reduce systemic inflammation which alleviates the pain. But it doesent resolve the cause of the inflammation to begin with.

Cold has to run its course. All the meds you listed just help you get through it.

x2!

[Atfulldraw]

in any marriage one person is always right, and the other is always you....


if the symptoms are resulting from inflammation, and you relieve the inflammation, which relieves or reduces the symptoms, that is a cure. Uncontrolled inflammation can cause additional, cascading problems.

now take the dang medicine like your wife asks you, unless you are getting it somewhere else.

it's probably not going to kill you.

[woodsman]

True. Tylenol & cough syrup won't prevent the spread of a communicable virus/bacteria to another person. They only impact symptoms.

[Chew]

So wait a minute. Starve a fever and Feed a cold don't work? Or is it feed a fever and starve a cold? I really need a new doctor. The one ObamaCare assigned me is making me fat.

[tvc184]

True or false....tylanol, motrin, BC powder, Nyquil etc.. do not contain medicines that help to cure you, but rather just help to mask the pain while your body fights off your cold.
The wife is always so persistant that I take tylenol when I am feeling ill so I don't get the baby sick an I get better quicker

Just tell her that the human bodies were "curing" themselves of a cold long before any of these medicines were invented.

None of the above mentioned meds (or I think any in existence for the cold virus) will kill any viruses that may spread to any other person.

The "cure" is time.............

[Bill]

Steaming your face with boiled water, take off burner, put a towel over your head and slowly lower it and inhale the steam. I think the heat denatures the virus outer portion and 'kills' 'em. I find if I do it when 1st symptoms of a cold hit, I can knock it out.

It's worked for 30 years.

My wife told me to do it!!!!

[DJM]

The wife is always so persistant that I take tylenol when I am feeling ill so I don't get the baby sick an I get better quicker

She wants you to take it so you'll quit griping about being sick.


DJ

[sweldo73]

True. Tylenol & cough syrup won't prevent the spread of a communicable virus/bacteria to another person. They only impact symptoms.

This^. Those medicines only affect your symptoms to make you feel better, but they do not 'cure' the cold nor make you any less infectious.