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South vs North Childrens Medications!

  • 27-07-2018 10:48am
    #1
    ZiabR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭


    Gripe Water, Anbisol, Piriton. All things that I was raised on in the 80's and all things that are no longer available in the South...

    I know you can get Gripe Water in the South, but it is a different recipe to the original. You need to go North to get the original Gripe Water.

    I am lucky I only live 15 minutes from the border and so I can travel up and buy these products but its VERY annoying to think that we can't get them in the South.

    Why have these products been removed/changed for the South? Oh and to think, medication is a fraction of the price in the North.

    Makes no sense.


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  • #2
    catrionanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭catrionanic


    Not to mention all the common drugs which you can buy in a pharmacy up north, but need a prescription for in the south! Like chloramphenicol eyedrops, buscopan, nizoral shampoo and many others.

    I've heard it's because the doctors who influence prescribing rules want you to go to the doctor and pay the money to be seen. The more medications they make available in a pharmacy without prescription, the less money they pocket


  • #3
    The Hound Gone Wild
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 255 ✭✭The Hound Gone Wild


    catrionanic wrote: »
    Not to mention all the common drugs which you can buy in a pharmacy up north, but need a prescription for in the south! Like chloramphenicol eyedrops, buscopan, nizoral shampoo and many others.

    I've heard it's because the doctors who influence prescribing rules want you to go to the doctor and pay the money to be seen. The more medications they make available in a pharmacy without prescription, the less money they pocket

    Buscopan & Nizoral are both available over the counter in the Republic. Brolene is an effective treatment for eye infections that can be self diagnosed. Its completely reasonable that chloramphenicol is prescription only. Overuse will lead to resistance.

    It wouldn't matter in the UK as GPs are paied a salary by the NHS not by how many patients they see. The fact is medication is dangerous when self prescribed. There's a reason it goes through at least 2 highly trained healthcare professionals before it gets into a patient's hands.


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