Calpol Night ORIGINAL!

by rlady 10.03.24 21:04

PeterMac's Ebook 'chapter discussing possible drugging of the three children has this passage:

• Two children aged 2 years were left comatose for 10 hours - they slept thorugh screaming, talking, lights switched on, furniture moving, being taken into other room and beds...
* When they woke no after effects were recorded. [2.7]

Then he writes:

So far as can be ascertained - there is NO substance or technique known to medical science which can do this.

That is wrong! The Original CALPOL NIGHT mixture was a strong sedative:

2007 CALPOL NIGHT medicine? remedy? sleep sedative?

ORIGINAL CALPOL NIGHT and similar MEDISED contained sedatives and caused drowsiness!

CALPOL NIGHT oral solution contains two active ingredients, paracetamol and diphenhydramine hydrochloride.

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.

Diphenhydramine is a type of medicine called a sedating antihistamine. It enters the brain in sufficient quantities to cause drowsiness.

CALPOL NIGHT was discontinued in 2009 due to worries about addiction.

Official Warning!

March 2009: Over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for children have recently been under review in the UK. New advice is that several cough and cold medicines, including this one, are no longer recommended for children under six years of age. This is because there is no evidence that they work in this age group, and they can potentially cause side effects such as allergic reactions, effects on sleep or hallucinations.

Diphenhydramine is a type of medicine called a sedating antihistamine. It enters the brain in sufficient quantities to cause drowsiness.

So back in 2007 any parent could have either Calpol Night or Medised and no one would raise any comment.

But an overdose on a 3 years old could have been fatal or made Maddie so groggy that she fell off the settee…

Kate's father, the grandfather of the minor, Brian Healy, admits to the press that Kate could have administered some medication to the little girl, Calpol, to help the child (children'') to sleep, contrary to what his daughter Kate had stated.

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Quote: 'And we know that the sedatives have timings to act and timings to be expelled, that varies between six and 200 hours.

The medical knowledge of the McCann is enough to know such, even if their professional activity never passed by performing toxicology exams.'

by rlady 10.03.24 21:10

2007 CALPOL NIGHT medicine? remedy? sleep sedative?
ORIGINAL CALPOL NIGHT and similar MEDISED contained sedatives and caused drowsiness!

2007 CALPOL NIGHT oral solution contains two active ingredients, paracetamol and diphenhydramine hydrochloride.
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.

Diphenhydramine is a type of medicine called a sedating antihistamine. It enters the brain in sufficient quantities to cause drowsiness.

CALPOL NIGHT was discontinued in 2009 due to worries about addiction.

Warning!
March 2009: Over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for children have recently been under review in the UK. New advice is that several cough and cold medicines, including this one, are no longer recommended for children under six years of age. This is because there is no evidence that they work in this age group, and they can potentially cause side effects such as allergic reactions, effects on sleep or hallucinations.

Diphenhydramine is a type of medicine called a sedating antihistamine. It enters the brain in sufficient quantities to cause drowsiness.

So back in 2007 any parent could have either Calpol Night or Medised and no one would raise any comment.
But an overdose on a 3 years old could have been fatal or made Maddie so groggy that she fell off the sette.

Kate's father, the grandfather of the minor, Brian Healy, admits to the press that Kate could have administered some medication to the little girl, Calpol, to help the child (children'') to sleep, contrary to what his daughter Kate had stated.

Giving 2007 Calpol Night to the two younger children was dangerous but very effective as they slept 10 hours through all sorts of disturbances!

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Quote: 'And we know that the sedatives have timings to act and timings to be expelled, that varies between six and 200 hours.

The medical knowledge of the McCann is enough to know such, even if their professional activity never passed by performing toxicology exams.'

by Silentscope 12.03.24 19:03

Syringe that 'knocked out' Maddie found

Daily Star
by Jerry Lawton
30 August 2007

Family fury at new claims

POLICE found a syringe in the holiday apartment where Madeleine McCann vanished, it was claimed last night.

Detectives are probing whether it was used to administer sedatives to the four-year-old and her twin siblings Sean and Amelie, according to a Portuguese newspaper.

Last night Madeleine's heart surgeon dad Gerry and GP mum Kate, both 39, were unavailable for comment on the alleged discovery.

But their spokesman Justine McGuinness said: "This is yet another piece of ridiculous speculation without any base in fact.

"Kate and Gerry are responsible and loving parents.

"They have said in the past they have never used sedatives on their children." Police declined to comment on the paper's claims.

Though they have stated the McCanns are not suspects, detectives are baffled that their twins never stirred the night Madeleine vanished from the apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.

They had hoped the two-year-olds, who were asleep in cots either side of their sister's bed, could be key witnesses.

But the pair were carried still sleeping from the apartment by police officers.

The mystery has fuelled speculation in the Portuguese media that Madeleine and the twins were given drugs to help them sleep while their parents went out.

The McCanns were dining in a tapas bar 40 yards away when their daughter vanished on May 3.

Last night a friend of the couple said the barrage of allegations by the Portuguese media had prompted the McCanns to decide to return to Britain within a fortnight. The pal said: "They've had enough." Gerry yesterday begged his daughter's abductor to hand her back.

He said the kidnapper may have taken her in an "act of madness" which they might not understand themselves.

On his daily internet blog he said "like everyone else" he and Kate were awaiting the results of DNA tests on the blood found in their apartment.

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Silentscope:

Around 2005 there were several different versions on administering Calpol-
One set had a Bottle where the Cap gave drops of the liquid formula.
The other had a Syringe (without a needle) to measure the Dose.

by GodKnows 17.08.24 19:16

The Calpol thing always bothered me. The antihistamine in Calpol Night was sufficient to give a child a good sleep but it wouldn't keep them "out" if disturbed in the middle of the night. It is also difficult to overdose on antihistamines but also the dose is linked to the paracetamol dose to prevent overdose.

So much was made of Calpol (less so Calpol Night I agree) by the media I felt it was a bit of a red herring. KM was an anaesthetist and that was of far more interest. I remember people regularly using Phenergan Elixir exactly to make their kids sleep. The cover up in the apartment re photos and other items hinted at a real staging.

by Silentscope 17.08.24 21:26

The overdosing of Madeleine McCann, directly causing her Death could be the Red Herring.

The need to keep the Twins KO whilst the Adults told the Police their cover Story would be a better explanation for any form of Sedation.

by Silentscope 18.08.24 13:50

'When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.'

Arthur Conan Doyle.

by AnneCGuedes 18.08.24 20:58

GodKnows wrote:The Calpol thing always bothered me. The antihistamine in Calpol Night was sufficient to give a child a good sleep but it wouldn't keep them "out" if disturbed in the middle of the night. It is also difficult to overdose on antihistamines but also the dose is linked to the paracetamol dose to prevent overdose.

So much was made of Calpol (less so Calpol Night I agree) by the media I felt it was a bit of a red herring. KM was an anaesthetist and that was of far more interest. I remember people regularly using Phenergan Elixir exactly to make their kids sleep. The cover up in the apartment re photos and other items hinted at a real staging.

It seems Calpol Night didn't yet exist, the antihistamine in Calpol, like in Phenergan (very much used in the fifties) is not what one would call a sedative. It's calming, like a painkiller. The twins slept like logs, Calpol could never achieve that.

31st August 2007

Calpol is launching four new symptom-specific lines, with the expectation they will grow the children’s medicines market by an estimated 4.5%, worth an additional £6.5m, in 2008.
Calpol is launching four new symptom-specific lines, with the expectation they will grow the children’s medicines market by an estimated 4.5%, worth an additional £6.5m, in 2008. New Calpol Night, CalCough, in ‘Chesty’ and ‘Tickly’ variants, and new CalCold are set to bring significant incremental sales to the already successful base P and GSL brand. Also new will be Calpol Vapour Plug & Nightlight.
The new product range will be available nationwide from September 2007 and is being supported by a multi-million pound integrated advertising and public relations campaign.

by **PeterMac** 19.08.24 7:39

We knew this in 2008 when we started discussing this issue
We are going round in circles.

by pinkgladioli 19.08.24 11:06

Dr’s who are anaesthetists and others with an interest or qualified in pharmacology, sports science would have the knowledge and know how to mix substances to create differing effects if they so wanted to!

by crusader 19.08.24 14:03

I think PerterMac has nailed it, the twins were probably dosed up on 3rd.
I don't believe Madeleine was drugged.

by AnneCGuedes 19.08.24 18:24

PeterMac wrote:We knew this in 2008 when we started discussing this issue
We are going round in circles.

Then why are posters speaking of Calpol Night if they know it wasn't available in May 2007 ?

by crusader 19.08.24 18:38

You better ask rlady, she? started the post, she? said PeterMac was wrong by what he wrote in his ebook.

by **PeterMac** 20.08.24 8:58

AnneCGuedes wrote:
PeterMac wrote:We knew this in 2008 when we started discussing this issue
We are going round in circles.

Then why are posters speaking of Calpol Night if they know it wasn't available in May 2007 ?

Because they do not do their research well enough.
We are talking about 2007, 17 years ago

The iPhone was introduced in late JUNE 2007
Mobile phones mostly didn't have decent cameras,
the maximum size file or image you could send by email was about 5mB and it took forever
we still used Internet cafés
Telephone masts were very few. There was ONE in PdL, Much of the 'confusion' about Brückner has been that PdL is sometimes referred to as a "resort'
as we can do in English but some have assumed that the "Resort, was the Ocean Club and have thought (or hoped) that the mast was there and that
'pings' place people within 50m of Apartment 5A. Clarke falls into this deep trench, as did Wolters, until he was interviewed by Sokonoko some time ago.
Calpol Night was released in September 2007 ( and withdrawn in 2010 !)
Detailed weather reports are available for the week of 28/4/7 - 6/5/7 as are satellite images and photos -
but some prefer not to look at them as the facts get in the way of their fantasies

and so on

by Bluebagthepirate 20.08.24 10:56

Selfies didn't have to be done using mobile phones in 2007.

Peter, you could use a digital camera and look at the view screen after which people did for selfies,. I know, wrong thread but just noting possibilities.

by GodKnows 20.08.24 22:29

PeterMac wrote:
AnneCGuedes wrote:
PeterMac wrote:We knew this in 2008 when we started discussing this issue
We are going round in circles.

Then why are posters speaking of Calpol Night if they know it wasn't available in May 2007 ?

Because they do not do their research well enough.
We are talking about 2007, 17 years ago

The iPhone was introduced in late JUNE 2007
Mobile phones mostly didn't have decent cameras,
the maximum size file or image you could send by email was about 5mB and it took forever
we still used Internet cafés
Telephone masts were very few. There was ONE in PdL, Much of the 'confusion' about Brückner has been that PdL is sometimes referred to as a "resort'
as we can do in English but some have assumed that the "Resort, was the Ocean Club and have thought (or hoped) that the mast was there and that
'pings' place people within 50m of Apartment 5A. Clarke falls into this deep trench, as did Wolters, until he was interviewed by Sokonoko some time ago.
Calpol Night was released in September 2007 ( and withdrawn in 2010 !)
Detailed weather reports are available for the week of 28/4/7 - 6/5/7 as are satellite images and photos -
but some prefer not to look at them as the facts get in the way of their fantasies

and so on

Apologies. I wasn't aware talking about it being highly unlikely it would have been Calpol/Calpol Night or anything over the counter used was forbidden.

Am I to gather the site gate keeps discussion? I'm always happy to be corrected politely but referring to facts getting in the way of posters "fantasies" is a little presumptuous and incredibly pompous.

by Bluebagthepirate 21.08.24 8:33

Calpol Night availability date is a fact.

You can check it.

Are posts about Calpol Night supposed to go unchallenged?

You are perfectly free to counter-argue it you think a fact is not true.

by Bluebagthepirate 21.08.24 8:38

And... the 'fantasy' comment was partly aimed at me for my opinion on the make-up photo.

I'm OK with that, I'm a grown up. I have counter argued as you might have seen above.. to which I would encourage people to Google 'selfies 2007' to see that selfies didn't start with the iPhone.

As Candice Owen once said 'life is tough get a helmet'.