14 Best Cold And Flu Medicine For Adults
Keeping yourself and any adult living with you healthy and well has become a challenge under home quarantine. That is why it is important to have medicine stocked up and ready in the event you or your loved one/s suddenly fall sick. The problem is that it is sometimes difficult to determine whether that sickness is either the common cold, flu or a virus that has some symptoms of both.
The good news is that you do not have to despair, because there are medicines currently available online that can help you or any adult at home tackle symptoms of both the common cold and flu. Here are some of the best of them:
Tylenol Cold+Flu Severe caplets provide effective relief for multiple cold and flu symptoms, such as headache, sore throat and cough. Each caplet contains acetaminophen for reducing fever and minor aches and pains, dextromethorphan HBr for cough relief, phenylephrine HCl for relieving congestion, and guaifenesin for loosening mucus.
Robitussin Maximum Strength Severe Multi-Symptom Cough Cold+Flu is a pain reliever, cough suppressant, fever reducer, expectorant and nasal decongestant combined into one single dose. This non-drowsy, raspberry mint-flavored formula works to relieve even the toughest cold and flu symptoms.
GoodSense Nighttime Cold And Flu Relief relieves cold and flu symptoms at night so you can rest and sleep easy. This cherry-flavored liquid medicine contains acetaminophen (650 milligrams), dextromethorphan (30 mg), and doxylamine succinate (12.5 mg) which work together to provide effective multi-symptom relief.
Take Boericke And Tafel's Alpha CF at the first sign of cold or flu. It does not cause drowsiness, nervousness, sleeplessness or excitability, so it is safe to use if you are taking other medications. This antihistamine-free tablet temporarily relieves fever, chills, sneezing, and other symptoms that may accompany colds or flu.
Available in packs of 10 and 20 tablets, Coricidin HBP Cold And Flu not only lowers blood pressure, but also deals with runny nose, sneezing, body aches and pains, fever and sore throat -- all symptoms of cold and flu. Specially formulated for hypertensives, each tablet contains 325 milligrams of acetaminophen and two milligrams of chlorpheniramine.
With Vicks' DayQuil And NyQuil LiquiCaps, you get powerful cold and flu relief, helping you deal with cough, sore throat, fever and other cold and flu symptoms day and night. While the non-drowsy DayQuil liquicap relieves nasal congestion, the NightQuil helps relieve sneezing and runny nose to help you sleep better at night.
This combo pack from Amazon Basic Care contains both Daytime and Nighttime Cold And Flu Relief caplets. While both caplets aid in pain relief, reducing fever, and cough relief, the Daytime Cold And Flu helps with nasal decongestion, and the Nighttime Cold And Flu fights sneezing and runny nose.
One dose of the Mucinex Fast-Max can help treat cold and flu symptoms all day long. While both the Daytime and Nighttime caplets treat fever, nasal and sinus congestion, body pain, headache, cough and sore throat, the former can deal with chest congestion and the latter can handle runny nose.
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold And Flu PowerMax Gels bring faster cold and flu relief so you can go back to your busy life. Now 25 percent smaller, each liquid gel is packed with a concentrated formula that provides fast and powerful relief from cold and flu symptoms.
Nature's Way Umcka Elderberry Cold+Flu syrup helps you recover faster. This homeopathic elderberry extract-based syrup is made from a combination of Pelargonium sidoides 1X and Alpha CF, resulting in a great-tasting, non-drowsy and intensive formula that is effective in relieving cold and flu symptoms while reducing their severity.
The Sambucol Black Elderberry Cold And Flu Relief Tablet provides fast, temporary, homeopathic relief from cold and flu symptoms such as nasal and sinus congestion, sore throat, chills and fever. Recommended for the whole family, it works best when taken at the first sign of any cold or flu symptom.
The Theraflu ExpressMax Severe Cold And Flu Syrup delivers fast and warming relief for seven cold and flu symptoms, including cough, fever and sore throat. Made from four powerful active ingredients, this alcohol-free, berry-flavored syrup combines the best four-hour maximum strength medicines available without a prescription.
Amazon Basic Care Mucus Mucus Relief Cold, Flu & Sore Throat relieves not only cold and flu symptoms, but also thins and loosens mucus as well. Free of gluten, sugar and alcohol, this non-drowsy formula is made from acetaminophen which both relieves pain and reduces fever; cough-suppressing dextromethorphan HBr; mucus-clearing guaifenesin and phenylephrine HCl (for nasal decongestion).
Bronchochem Cold And Flu Caplets not only temporarily relieve most cold and flu symptoms such as pain, itching, and runny nose, they also provide relief for common symptoms of allergies as well. Each caplet contains acetaminophen, Phenylephrine HCl for nasal decongestion, cough-suppressing Dextromethorphan HBr, and Chlorpheniramine Maleate that reduces watery eyes and sneezing, among other symptoms.
