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Asked for male, 30 years old from Varanasi
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My cousin siddharth mishra is continuously taking drug abuses from last 10 years he is taking corex cough syrup and he was also taking spasm proxyvon capsules also but from last 3 years spasm proxyvon was unavailable at stores than he is taking clonafit tab in night also and he wants to get rid from it he was very good looking but due to continuous drug addiction of corex and other kind of drugs like clonafit he is now looking very bad I mean after seeing him nobody can say that he belongs to a good decent family why this is happening to him he looks like 4th grade employees he is working as manager in reputed mnc and we are planning for his marriage whether he will be got rid from drug abuse and he spends most of his salary into bad habits and he is smoking too whether his disease is curable and can you suggest some medicines for him as antidote and their dosage as well.

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Gynaecologist•Bokaro
Hello lybrate-user deepak. It's very good of you to have come up with this question about a family member. He can get rid of his addiction only if he accepts that he accepts that he is an addict and that he should get rid of this problem. He should attend a deaddiction clinic and the family members should be very supportive in his endeavour. If he's planning to get married he must inform the girl about his addiction before marriage. Nimhans is a very good centre but there are other centres also ...more
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Endocrinologist•Hubli-Dharwad
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Mr. lybrate-user, Thanks for the query.
Addiction to "cough syrup" is definitely bad. But which cough syrup are you taking is not mentioned. As there are different ingredients in different products. Most often Codeine addiction is observed (Corex cough syrup). Since sough syrups also contain a good deal of sugar, taking those is bound to give additional sugar increasing blood glucose. So please tell me which is the product. To get out of the addiction, it is better to get in touch with a psy...more
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Hi, I need to get something off my mind so I thought you could help me. A while ago I donated blood in the morning after having taken a painkiller the night before. The painkiller contained 250 mg of paracetamol and 10 mg of codeine. I told the doctor I had taken it, but I said I had taken it 3 days earlier since I didn't want to get rejected and I thought that, because of substance dilution in the blood, the fact that at least three or even four elimination half-lives had passed, the amount of medication present in the donated blood was negligible. I thought this because I am a pretty large guy, I am 25, I am roughly 6 feet tall (183 cm) and I have roughly 202 pound (92 kg-93 kg). Consequently I thought that, since I probably have around 5700 ml of blood and blood donation is only 450 ml, that the substance would be more than diluted in my body. The doctor wrote down that there could still be some paracetamol present in my blood and she let me donate. Nonetheless, I am now really worried that because of my stupidity and recklessness, my blood might have hurt someone. My biggest concern is that, the amount of codeine that was still present in my blood, as tiny as it might have been, might have interfered with the platelet function in my blood and that these "broken" platelets may have hurt someone in some way. I am not sure if this is true, but I did read that codeine has this effect. Is there any reason for me to worry? Thanks in advance.

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Sexologist•Sri Ganganagar
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No worries. Don't panic. Paracetamol plain is safe. It doesn't have side effects as such broken platelets & all.
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It's not very long since you have started these drugs please stop them as soon as possible switching over to tablets is equality bad just stop it immediately you may get withdrawal symptoms for sometime for a few days and then you will recover from it please bear that otherwise this drug addiction will spoil your life.
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