Sugar-free liquid acetaminophen or ibuprofen?

[Anonymous]

This is the silliest thing I have ever heard.

[Anonymous]

Do you know that liquid acetaminophen doesn’t contain “sugar”? No glucose, sucrose, fructose. No corn syrup.

[Anonymous]

My colleague just called me to tell me about this thread, because we can't believe how stupid this is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you know that liquid acetaminophen doesn’t contain “sugar”? No glucose, sucrose, fructose. No corn syrup.

Name brand children's Tylenol contains HFCS.

https://www.tylenol.com/products/childrens-tylenol-oral-suspension#ingredients

As does CVS brand.

https://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-health-children-s-pain-relief-suspension-liquid-cherry-flavor-12-oz-prodid-695053

I assume the other generic versions do too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you know that liquid acetaminophen doesn’t contain “sugar”? No glucose, sucrose, fructose. No corn syrup.

Name brand children's Tylenol contains HFCS.

https://www.tylenol.com/products/childrens-tylenol-oral-suspension#ingredients

As does CVS brand.

https://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-health-children-s-pain-relief-suspension-liquid-cherry-flavor-12-oz-prodid-695053

I assume the other generic versions do too.

In any event, who cares. A little corn syrup isn’t going hurt your kid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is your DC diabetic? I'm not sure there's enough sugar in 5 mL (or whatever) to be that concerned about it. Or is it an allergy?

BTW, my kid has a dye allergy and I'm thankful that there are dye-free option for all of these.

No, we just avoid processed sugars.

Medicine is made by a process. But you will take that... don’t be such an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you know that liquid acetaminophen doesn’t contain “sugar”? No glucose, sucrose, fructose. No corn syrup.

Name brand children's Tylenol contains HFCS.

https://www.tylenol.com/products/childrens-tylenol-oral-suspension#ingredients

As does CVS brand.

https://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-health-children-s-pain-relief-suspension-liquid-cherry-flavor-12-oz-prodid-695053

I assume the other generic versions do too.

In any event, who cares. A little corn syrup isn’t going hurt your kid

PP here. My kids have taken some corn syrup with their medicine, I'm not concerned about it. But I don't like false statements.

Children's liquid acetiminophen and ibuprofen contain sugar, unless you get the sugar-free versions with sucralose (splenda) or aspartame.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know about sugar free and don’t want to get into that debate anyway, but if your DC has trouble with pills they do make chewable acetaminophen for children. I buy it at Target.

[Anonymous]

Rudest replies on here. How embarrassing.
I was just researching this for my diabetic. I have not found sugar free acetaminophen but they do sell sugar free ibuprofen. Ibuprofen is for pain and inflammation. Acetaminophen for pain. I’m not partial to ibuprofen with COVID-19 in the mix.

[Anonymous]

This uses agave https://www.genexa.com/products/kids-pain-fever-acetaminophen-liquid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does your kid eat fruit? They probably get more sugar from a serving of fruit then they will from meds. I HATE ignorance.

Me. Too. Educate yourself about sugars. Refined sugars vs aspartame vs hi fructose corn syrup vs sugar metabolism when eating a piece of fruit. Studies not funded by the sugar industry. I cannot find any syrup free acetaminophen after surgery either. There are 3 grams of sugar in every tsp. 48 grams in a soda or juice and you are consuming 16 tsp sugar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you know that liquid acetaminophen doesn’t contain “sugar”? No glucose, sucrose, fructose. No corn syrup.

Here are the ingredients for the cherry flavor of the most popular brand:

anhydrous citric acid, FD&C red no. 40, flavors, glycerin, high fructose corn syrup, microcrystalline cellulose and carboxymethylcellulose sodium, purified water, sodium benzoate, sorbitol solution, sucralose, xanthan gum

From here:

https://www.tylenol.com/products/childrens-tylenol-oral-suspension#ingredients

[Anonymous]

Yikes OP. You're a horrific parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is your DC diabetic? I'm not sure there's enough sugar in 5 mL (or whatever) to be that concerned about it. Or is it an allergy?

BTW, my kid has a dye allergy and I'm thankful that there are dye-free option for all of these.

No, we just avoid processed sugars.

You are nuts.

[Anonymous]

People with issues this severe shouldn't have children