Inizierò, in realtà quasi una volta ho avuto un’overdose di Calpol da ragazzino solo perché amavo il sapore di fragola che aveva. Sono stato portato d’urgenza da un medico per un controllo urgente, la mia memoria è un po’ confusa da quel momento in poi, ma penso che sia successo qualcosa
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Can’t eat butter, yes seriously. Pours out of me. I mean hard violent chocolate rain. There have been a few incidents.
Calpol has Paracetamol in it. Overdosing on Paracetamol can cause liver damage, which I’m guessing was the concern there.
It was wildly irresponsible to make Calpol taste that good in all fairness.
I loved Calpol as a kid, OMG!
Just the other night I was on my other half’s bffs instagram page and accidentally liked a pic of her at the beach. I panicked and unliked it
I have the exact same story as you.
I think I was 3 or 4 and I drank a bottle of calpol.
I was rushed to the hospital and kept a few days.
Yeah, I could never find the toasted sandwich maker at home, so I’d butter up a couple of slices of bread, load them with grated cheddar, and jam them into the toaster instead. This went on for some weeks, until one night my dad went to make toast, and the toaster went on fire. Massive flames shooting out of it 🔥. Brother got it outside to extinguish it. All the grease from the butter and cheese had congealed at the bottom, and had finally been set off by the heat. Like the clown I was, I’d completely overlooked this, and worst of all, I was in my mid 20s when it happened
I was more partial to the green of the fairy liquid. Can’t remember it tasting good. Can remember we lived in the sticks so the hospital was called for advice and I think drinking milk was the cure.
It doesn’t taste like strawberry it tastes like sugar. Which is the main ingredient, it’s about 50% sugar
No but I know someone who would ask for varying pain meds often.
Not calpol, but I fucking LOVE the taste of the yellow banana flavour liquid antibiotic. Before I had a kid, I would smell the bottle if anyone was taking it. I had a cheeky taste when my son was prescribed it a few months ago 😂
Never did that with calpol but I do vaguely remember drinking from a bottle of some antibiotic liquid as a small child. It was green and very sweet. That childproof bottle was not childproof at all.
When I was a kid, my younger brother used to leave pee in the toilet seat all the time and my ma kept blaming me. So one day I decided to purposely piss all over the toilet seat, like deliberately covering the whole toilet seat and my ma came in and caught me 😂😂😂
Real smackheads know nurofen was the better of the two
People like the taste of Calpol? It was my least favourite medicine as a kid
Pro tip Vimto is like fizzy calpol
My mother gave out to me for drinking an entire bottle of Calpol when I was six as it was selfish and my younger sibling didn’t have any for their teething. ….. There was no concern about me downing the entire thing
Accidentally OD’D on senokot after my appendix burst, and nearly popped my stitches. The dosage gave a range, and I went with the higher range as I was experiencing awful symptoms post surgery. GP had to give me something to counter the effects.
It goes down great with a bottle of Buckfast
Happened my exs son.. dr just shrugged said he’d be a bit hyper off the sugar
Used to pretend to have a sore stomach to get a tablespoon of gripe water (the proper stuff not whatever they have it as now)
My daughter was about 2. She had a temperature during the night, and I gave her Calpol. Left the bottle beside by bed, and we went back to sleep. She was in the bed with us. Woke up during the night, and saw here standing beside me swigging straight from the Calpol bottle – evidently I hadn’t closed the lid properly in my tired state.
Jumped up in a panic to stop her and bring her to get medical attention for what I assumed would be a paracetamol overdose. Put my foot into my shoe (which was beside by bed) and felt a cold, gooey squish. It was full of Calpol.
Phoned our local out of hours doctor, and they asked me about the size of the Calpol bottle, how much had already been used, her age and weight, how much I estimated was in my shoe. In the end they determined that there was no way she could have overdosed based on the size of the bottle alone, so I was left with a sticky foot, a manky shoe, an almost heart attack and a kid who felt much better.
Grew up on a dairy farm. Drank teat dip because the blue colour looked delicious
I ended up nearly choking because I had a plastic toy whistle (might have been out of a Christmas cracker?) and decided to see if it still whistled as well if I sucked as hard as I could through the “wrong” end.
Ended up inhaling the entire inside of the whistle, had a massive coughing/squeaking fit, eventually dislodged the damn thing, swallowed it and pooped it out a day or two later.
I have said I love you to so many people I casually know when I’m saying goodbye 🫣🥲 I just feel strong emotions and it’s more of like a, I really enjoyed talking to you/spending time with you meaning. I have no idea why I do this. Maybe also partly social anxiety/overwhelm.
I am the most awkward creature in this planet, it makes me dread every interaction 😂
A few years ago, after Christmas shopping in town I was walking home from the Dart laden down with bags. A car coming out of a side street stopped to let me cross. I wanted to thank them but my hands were full. I managed to free a single finger to wave a thanks with and 🖕. They looked absolutely shocked and I (obviously) still think about it!
Just recently was filling up the car with petrol in a garage I only use occasionally. Walked in to pay and notice it’s been taken over by a nice family from India I presumed. Get to the till tap the card and the guy says something which ended in New Delhi. Wasn’t really listening so replied- oh that’s nice, a long way from India, welcome to Ireland. Turned away and walked out to see a big sign at the back of the shop. Try our new sandwich deli counter. Poor man was promoting his new deli and I completely missed the content. Haven’t been back.
I hid some of the fast melts in my wardrobe, at least I was old enough to know not to consume them all at once but the mother found them and wasn’t pleased!
We cracked open a bottle of champagne the day our first was old enough to pump calpol into her
I ended up in hospital for a few days when I was 5 because I drank the entire bottle of some anti biotic medicine because it tasted good.
I could open child locks on medicine bottles and came down on a Saturday and saw it on the kitchen counter and promptly downed the whole thing. It was drowsy medicine and my parents initially thought I’d drank alcohol because I was slurring my words and wobbling about.
All I remember in hospital was being made to eat charcoal and how the small crt tv in the ward up on the wall felt like watching a postage stamp.
I loved a sip of gripe water.