NyQuil
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NyQuil, produced by the Vicks company, is a medicine designed to help relieve many symptoms of a cold that is to be taken orally in either liquid or "LiquiCap" (capsule) form, at night. Its daytime counterpart is DayQuil; however, NyQuil, unlike DayQuil, is intended to induce drowsiness.
NyQuil used to contain the nasal decongestant pseudoephedrine. Some states require pharmacies to stock medications with pseudoephedrine behind the counter due to fears that they will be used as an ingredient to produce methamphetamine. Because taking the product off store shelves negatively impacts sales, the pseudoephedrine was removed from the formula. Therefore, the current formulation of NyQuil is ineffective as a decongestant and should not be classified as such. Multi-symptom Cold/Flu Relief Nyquil has Pseudoephedrine, a nasal decongestant.
Above may be true somewhere but in Canada, Children's Vicks NyQuil lists Medicinal Ingredients per 15 mL: 2mg Chlorpheniramine Maleate, 15mg Dextromethorphan HBr, 30 mg Pseudoephedrine HCl.
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Uses
NyQuil is used for the temporary relief of common cold symptoms, such as:
- sneezing
- cough
- sore throat
- headache
- minor aches and pains
- muscular aches
- fever
Ingredients
NyQuil's active ingredients are:
- Acetaminophen (pain reliever/fever reducer)
- Dextromethorphan (cough suppressant)
- Doxylamine succinate (antihistamine)
It should not be taken by people who consume more than 3 servings of alcohol per day, or people who are taking other medicines containing acetaminophen, or who are using a prescribed monoamine oxidase inhibitor.
Advertising
NyQuil television commercials show people who used other cold medicines and how they would be feeling better if they used NyQuil. Examples include mom with daughter going up the down escaltor, women with head in fog trying to open another persons car, medicine wearing off right before math midterm, husband sleeping because he took NyQuil while wife wakes up in the middle of the night because medicine wore off and can't get back to sleep and goes to work with a cold while wondering why husband is feeling ok, etc.
Trivia
The album John Henry by They Might Be Giants featured a song which refers to a "NyQuil driver". While the lyrics were unchanged, the song was renamd "AKA Driver" due to legal issues — whether real or perceived — which required a title with no reference to the medicine. In addition, the lyrics to the song were omitted from the CD insert.
Lewis Black humorously referred to Nyquil as "180 proof alcohol". In actuality, NyQuil contains 10% alcohol, making it 20 proof [1].
The Matches referred to NyQuil in their song "December is for Cynics" with the line 'Let's get high on NyQuil and hibernate'.