KIDS are being given so much Calpol a doctor has branded it "the heroin of childhood", a top doc has warned. Dr Chris van Tulleken revealed children are taking three times more of the ...

A doctor has warned that kids are being given so much Calpol that he has dubbed it “the heroin of childhood.” Picture the scene: It’s 3am and you’re pounding the floor with a hot and grizzly baby.

It’s a staple in every family medicine cabinet but top paediatricians have warned that parents are putting their children’s health at risk by being too quick to give them Calpol. Being given Calpol ...

YOU can now buy Calpol scented wax melts to make your home can smell exactly your childhood. Chances are if you were ill when you were younger, you’d be given a spoonful (or two) of Calpol. Calpol was ...

A mum's Facebook post has gone viral after she discovered that she had been paying for Calpol for her children for eight years - when she could have got it for free. Christine Davidson, from Glasgow, ...

Youngsters are given so much Calpol unnecessarily it has been dubbed “the heroin of childhood”, a medic says. New dad Dr Chris van Tulleken investigated why the UK spends £64million a year on the ...

MALTITOL LIQUID: Hydrogenated corn syrup combined with maltitol, a sugar alcohol used as a sugar substitute. SORBITOL LIQUID: Another alcohol sugar used in combination with maltitol liquid to form the ...

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Being ill wasn’t so bad when we were little, especially when we got to sip on that sweet sweet Calpol. Those of us who still feel nostalgic over the childhood medicine (probably the same people who ...