Beechams Powders 16 Capsules

Beechams Powders Capsules

Suffering from a cold or flu? Beechams can give you the relief you need, at Chemist-4-U we have a wide range of effective powders lozenges hot drinks and tablets to see you well through the winter.

contain three active ingredients, paracetamol, phenylephrine, and vitamin C

Paracetamol is a simple painkilling medicine used to relieve mild to moderate pain and fever. Despite its widespread use for over 100 years, we still don't fully understand how paracetamol works to relieve pain and reduce fever.

However, it is now thought that it works by reducing the production of prostaglandins in the brain and spinal cord.

The body produces prostaglandins in response to injury and certain diseases.

One of the effects of prostaglandins is to sensitise nerve endings, causing pain (presumably to prevent us from causing further harm to the area). As paracetamol reduces the production of these nerve sensitising prostaglandins it is thought it may increase our pain threshold, so that although the cause of the pain remains, we can feel it less.

It is thought paracetamol reduces fever by affecting an area of the brain that regulates our body temperature (the hypothalamic heat-regulating center). The paracetamol in Beechams cold & flu helps relieve aches, pains, sinus pain, sore throats and fever associated with colds and flu.

Phenylephrine is a type of medicine called a decongestant. It works by acting on alpha receptors that are found in the walls of blood vessels in the linings of the nasal passages and sinuses. It causes these blood vessels to contract and narrow, thereby decreasing blood flow into the linings of the nose and sinuses. This reduces the feeling of congestion and also reduces the production of mucus, helping to relieve a blocked nose.

Vitamin C is involved, amongst many things, in maintaining a healthy immune system. It is normally obtained in the diet as the body is unable to produce its own. A balanced diet, that includes different types of food, is likely to provide adequate amounts of vitamin C, and supplements are given when dietary vitamin C is not adequate. Vitamin C is included in many cold and flu remedies as studies have shown it may reduce the severity of symptoms of colds and flu.

The combination of active ingredients in Beechams cold helps to relieve the symptoms of colds and flu. For adults and children over 12 years of age,  should be taken every four to six hours as necessary,