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NyQuil, produced by the Vicks company, is a medicine and hypnotic drug. It is designed to help relieve many symptoms of a cold, and is to be taken orally in either liquid or "LiquiCap" (capsule) form, at night. Its daytime counterpart is DayQuil; however, NyQuil, unlike DayQuil, is intended to induce drowsiness.
NyQuil used to contain the nasal decongestant pseudoephedrine. Some states require pharmacies to stock medications with pseudoephedrine behind the counter due to fears that they will be used as an ingredient to produce methamphetamine. Because taking the product off store shelves negatively impacts sales, the pseudoephedrine was removed from the formula. Therefore, the current formulation of NyQuil is ineffective as a decongestant and should not be classified as such. Multi-symptom Cold/Flu Relief Nyquil has Pseudoephedrine, a nasal decongestant.
In Canada, Children's Vicks NyQuil lists Medicinal Ingredients per 15 mL: 2mg Chlorpheniramine Maleate, 15mg Dextromethorphan HBr, 30 mg Pseudoephedrine HCl.
Uses
NyQuil is used for the temporary relief of common cold symptoms, such as:
- sneezing
- cough
- sore throat
- headache
- minor aches and pains
- muscular aches
- fever
Ingredients
NyQuil's active ingredients are:
- Acetaminophen (pain reliever/fever reducer)
- Dextromethorphan (cough suppressant)
- Doxylamine succinate (antihistamine)
It should not be taken by people who consume more than 3 servings of alcohol per day, or people who are taking other medicines containing acetaminophen, or who are using a prescribed monoamine oxidase inhibitor.
Advertising
NyQuil television commercials show people who used other cold medicines and how they would be feeling better if they used NyQuil. Examples include a mother with her daughter going up the down escalator, women with head in fog trying to open another person's car, medicine wearing off right before a math midterm, a husband sleeping because he took NyQuil while his wife wakes up in the middle of the night because the other medicine wore off and can't get back to sleep and goes to work with a cold while wondering why husband is feeling okay.
Trivia
The album John Henry by They Might Be Giants featured a song which refers to a "NyQuil driver". While the lyrics were unchanged, the song was renamed "AKA Driver" due to legal issues — whether real or perceived — which required a title with no reference to the medicine. In addition, the lyrics to the song were omitted from the CD insert.
Standup comic Denis Leary once performed a lengthy routine based on the concept of his having given up such illegal drugs as cocaine and marijuana and taking up the use of legal ones, particulary NyQuil, which he referred to as "Green Death." He also made note of the large Q in NyQuil.
Lewis Black humorously referred to Nyquil as "180 proof alcohol", calling it "the moonshine of medicine". In actuality, NyQuil contains 10% alcohol, making it 20 proof. Black also refers to the colors of Nyquil(Red and Green) as the only things that taste that way, in addition to them reminding him of Christmas.*.
The Matches referred to NyQuil in their song "December is for Cynics" with the line 'Let's get high on NyQuil and hibernate'.
Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Farley spoofed NyQuil's advertised sleep aid in a skit promoting a product called Hybernol. The product was featured as a cold and flu medication that would put the patient to sleep for "the next six months" allowing the existing ailment and any subsequent ones to pass comfortably and naturally.
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