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  • HardyGirl
    Mego Museum's Poster Girl
    • Apr 3, 2007
    • 13950

    Household medications used when you were young

    I was just having this conversation w/ my mom, and we were remembering all the stuff that used to be in our medicine cabinet back in the day. What are some of the medications or remedies (internal or topical) you remember taking as a kid?
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  • ShadowAvenger
    Career Member
    • May 14, 2007
    • 547

    #2
    I remember Vicks vapor rub (we still use it for colds), Vicks nasal inhaler and Vicks cough drops. My mother does not the new cough drops and last winter we picked some up at a Wal-Green's that was a hundred miles away. She has been using them to also help her stop smoking.

    We also had the Mercurochrome for minor cuts that burned and turned your skin red for a week.
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    • Mikey
      Verbose Member
      • Aug 9, 2001
      • 47258

      #3
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      • BlackKnight
        The DarkSide Customizer
        • Apr 16, 2005
        • 14622

        #4
        Flinstones Vitamins.
        ... I dunno,.. a bunch of Grape Stuff that Tasted like Crap.
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        • Hector
          el Hombre de Acero
          • May 19, 2003
          • 31852

          #5
          Alka-Seltzer.

          I drank it like soda pop...as a matter of fact...I still love it.

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          • jessica
            fortune favors the bold
            • Nov 5, 2007
            • 4590

            #6
            I remember being forced to drink a spoon of cod liver oil every day. It was disgusting and you tasted the vile stuff all freaking day.
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            • DocDrako
              Formerly Doc Drako
              • Nov 11, 2004
              • 2813

              #7
              St. Joseph's Baby Aspirin. When I was 5, my doctor had me on 22 a day. 10 at breakfast, 11 at lunch, 10 at dinner, and 11 at bedtime. I can still taste them. I finally got taken off of them when I was around 8. Sometimes my mom bought Bayer, which had Orange flavoring, but mostly St. Joseph's.

              Also, I had to take this liquid Iron Supplement that had these children on the bottle drawn with shapes. That stuff was nasty and I don't know what brand it was, but it was bad. I had to take that every day. My Mom would put it in my orange juice to make it tolerable, but it would settle to the bottom and then I'd get a big mouthful of that junk all at once. Horrible.

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              • fallensaviour
                Talkative Member
                • Aug 28, 2006
                • 5620

                #8
                Originally posted by jessica
                I remember being forced to drink a spoon of cod liver oil every day. It was disgusting and you tasted the vile stuff all freaking day.
                Bingo same here;if you where really lucky you might get some campher oil,
                Or some cole oil(ya the stuff for laterns) to gargle with or have put on your chest and back.
                last but not least good old epsom salts cured almost anything....
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                • Marvelmania
                  A Ray of Sunshine
                  • Jun 17, 2001
                  • 10392

                  #9
                  For every cut or scrape my dad would paint me with methiolade. Seems that I went though my early years with red spots painted all over me. Bactine seemed to be another cure all for my family. Funny that when I now get a whiff of it I immediately get flashbacks to my childhood.

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                  • garagesale
                    Dept. of Mego Studies
                    • Aug 8, 2006
                    • 1142

                    #10
                    Weird stuff on this end... when we had a cough, my granny used to make us a "hot toddy" consisting of bourbon, honey, & lemon. Sure made the throat feel better... and you sure slept well that night.

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                    There were also "diet pills," including Dexatrim (which I believe is still around), and the AYDS Diet Plan, which had to go away or change it's name by the mid-80s.

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                    We also had campho-phenique, which is still around.

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                    • HardyGirl
                      Mego Museum's Poster Girl
                      • Apr 3, 2007
                      • 13950

                      #11
                      Here's some of the ones my mom and I talked about:

                      Flescher's Castoria
                      Phillip's Milk Of Magnesia
                      Di-Gel
                      Bactine (I know about that smell taking you back!)
                      Eno
                      Micurichome (Spelling)
                      St. Joseph's asprin for children ( I O.D'd on these once and mom freaked!)
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                      • SUP-Ronin
                        Stuck in a laundry shoot.
                        • Oct 8, 2007
                        • 3146

                        #12
                        Originally posted by HardyGirl
                        Bactine (I know about that smell taking you back!)
                        That is the biggy I was gonna say. Never forget that smell. We also had some sort of ammonia medicated pen like thing Mom would put on bug bites. If you had itched them, it really hurt.

                        I was always covered in Poison Ivy, and subsequently always covered in that pink lotion stuff, I think it was calamine.
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                        • Bizarro Amy
                          Formerly known as Del
                          • Dec 12, 2004
                          • 3336

                          #13
                          I think the defining ones for my childhood were Bactine(still love that smell), pink Calamine lotion, and Flintstones vitamins. Another one that I don't see much anymore is Coke syrup, to settle upset stomachs.
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                          • Manspider
                            Museum Super Collector
                            • Feb 7, 2008
                            • 224

                            #14
                            St. Joseph's Aspirin, Pink Calomine lotion, rubbing alcohol, and Epson Salt

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                            • HardyGirl
                              Mego Museum's Poster Girl
                              • Apr 3, 2007
                              • 13950

                              #15
                              Originally posted by del
                              I think the defining ones for my childhood were Bactine(still love that smell), pink Calamine lotion, and Flintstones vitamins. Another one that I don't see much anymore is Coke syrup, to settle upset stomachs.

                              Yeah, you don't see that anymore. My mom (and the doc) used flat Coke.
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                              'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
                              Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
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