Cough Syrup: People often use drugs to defend themselves. For diseases like cough, cold, we try to cure it by using cough syrup, but do you know that these cough medicines can also kill you. Yes ! You heard it right, the cough syrup that gives relief in cough can also kill you. Let us tell you that many such chemicals are mixed in it which are very harmful for our body.
Many children died after drinking poisonous syrup
Recently in Panama, India and Nigeria, news of death of many children due to drinking poisonous cough syrup is coming to the fore. It is believed that all these children died after drinking cough syrup. In such a situation, Chetan Kumar Chaudhary, director of the US Pharmacopoeia, said that two very toxic substances are added to children’s cough syrups, namely ethylene glycol (EG) and (DEG) diethylene glycol.
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toxic substances mixed
Both substances, he said, could be a byproduct or byproduct of making propylene glycol. Those who make propylene glycol for use in medicine have to purify it to remove toxic substances from it. According to international guidelines, only trace amounts of EG and DEG should be present in medicines. i.e. not more than 0.10 per cent by weight per volume or 0.10 g per 100 ml of syrup
This is being done to increase profits
The company making cough syrup does this because both IG and DIG are very cheap. These chemicals are available at half the price as compared to Propylene Glycol. In such a situation, companies making cough syrup mix these toxic substances to increase profits.
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