Resolve a Disagreement in the SAK house

theultimatesak · December 2014

With doing no research on the topic, would you assume that the daytime version of cold medicines have something to keep you awake, or does it just not have the ingredients in it that make you drowsy?

flummadiddle85 · December 2014

Just doesn't have drowsy ingredients.

scottipino · December 2014

Just don't make you drowsy

Mandmeesh · December 2014

Yes. Just doesn't make you drowsy. DayQuil does make me feel sick though-dizzy and lightheaded. I'm not sure why
/anecdote

Brandiewine11 · December 2014

What everyone else said.

sarenu1 · December 2014

Mandmeesh said:

Yes. Just doesn't make you drowsy. DayQuil does make me feel sick though-dizzy and lightheaded. I'm not sure why /anecdote

Ditto. I only take it when I can't stand it anymore.

scottipino · December 2014

Sudafed (pseudoephedrine) can often cause lightheadedness or just plain strange feelings. Typically dose dependent, so if you really want to take it try taking a lower dose.

Rrrrrachel · December 2014

I think it has something to keep you awake. But I'm a contrarian.

TJ1979 · December 2014

Nope, just less drowsy medications.

Guennie · December 2014

They just contain meds that don't make you drowsy, there isn't anything in them to actually help you stay awake, as everyone has said. However, the meds in daytime formula can affect some people by making them not able to sleep, as a side effect. My husband can't take daytime cold meds late in the day because they keep him up at night.

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Kelly11235 · December 2014

Isn't psuephodrine (I can't spell) basically speed?

I know it's what they make Meth out of.

CLLDLL · December 2014

/sort of random anecdote that I feel like sharing.....D had to take some allergy meds every day as an infant. Something in the first brand we tried made him crazy wired. Like he'd literally start waving his arms and kicking his feet a mile a minute within 20 minutes of taking it. Needless to say we switched brands quickly!!

TJ1979 · December 2014

CLLDLL said:

/sort of random anecdote that I feel like sharing.....D had to take some allergy meds every day as an infant. Something in the first brand we tried made him crazy wired. Like he'd literally start waving his arms and kicking his feet a mile a minute within 20 minutes of taking it. Needless to say we switched brands quickly!!

That's pretty common with benadryl. It makes some people sleepy, it makes some kids crazy cakes.

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