Advantages: Quickly helps a wide variety of cold symptoms. Disadvantages: Taste.
...This is OLBAS BLACKCURRENT PASTILLES.
They are called Blackcurrant Pastilles because blackcurrant flavouring has been added. The sweetener aspartame is also included. I think these are needed to take the edge off the unpleasant taste of the combination of active ingredients, which are eucalyputus, peppermint, levomentol, juniperberry, wintergreen and clove. I don’t know which of these ingredients I didn’t like the taste of but, athough I disliked ... ...an ordinary sweets counter.
Olbas Blackcurrent Pastilles are sugar free, oval shaped, and about 2cm long. I couldn’t smell anything much when first given them, including the pastille, but now the congestion is easing they do have a distinctive smell, presumably of the main ingredients.
They are not recommended for children under 7. There are also warnings not to take any non-essential medicines if pregnant, especially in the first 3 months, while ...
luckyarchers 07.02.2005
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When it is an Olbas blackcurrant pastille!
'Tis the cold and flu month at our lovely Bolton offices. And some horrible sick person has infected me with a hacking cough, sore throat and runny nose.
Being male, I dont handle sickness well, so it was off to Boots to 'tool up' and fight that cold virus with all the modern medecine available to the 21st century male.
To protect my gnashers, I decided on a sugar free lozenge or something similar to ... ...give it a go. Olbas make excellent inhalers, which I also got and have used successfully, several cold seasons past.
As a sucker for packaging, the dark purple and green package looked fruity (think blackcurranty) and eye-catching. Hey, I could practically taste the fruit already! My mouth watered in anticipation. Apart from soothing my ravaged throat, this would also clear my head. Anyone who has used up a pack of kleenex man-size tissues in a ...
Andy0 22.05.2003
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