Um, the directions are "Take Tamiflu capsules, open them, and mix them with liquid to make liquid Tamiflu". That's sort of like saying that you can make a backpack nuke at home, provided you have access to a nuclear weapon and a backpack.

Scotch is a liquid, how good do you want to feel ?

dahmers love zombie: ...like saying that you can make a backpack nuke at home, provided you have access to a nuclear weapon and a backpack.

Don't forget the duct tape. You won't get far without that.

dahmers love zombie: Um, the directions are "Take Tamiflu capsules, open them, and mix them with liquid to make liquid Tamiflu". That's sort of like saying that you can make a backpack nuke at home, provided you have access to a nuclear weapon and a backpack.

I do this three times a day with Depakote. But I use strawberry yogurt, not chocolate syrup, because that's what the poster child for LKS prefers.

/It would also need to be a very compact, low-weight nuclear weapon you found lying around in the garage.

From the CDC site (new window) mentioned in the article:

"What can I do if my child cannot swallow capsules?
If your doctor prescribes Tamiflu® capsules for your child and your child cannot swallow capsules, the prescribed capsules may be opened and mixed with a sweet thick liquid and given that way."

Joelogon: sweet thick liquid and given that way."

Would Southern Comfort qualify or is it not thick enough?

I see a full-blown zombie apocalypse arising as a result of some goober messing this up.

WhyteRaven74: Would Southern Comfort qualify or is it not thick enough?

Naw... you gotta go a Baileys or Kahlua thickness.

Meth/Tamiflu. Same/same.

Hey subby, I don't think reading comprehension is your strong suit. Go back and RTFA.

Anastacya: Meth/Tamiflu. Same/same.

Po-tay-to, po-tah-to, practically.

Vitamin C crushed and mixed into 2 oz. Drambuie should keep junior healthy.

dahmers love zombie: Um, the directions are "Take Tamiflu capsules, open them, and mix them with liquid to make liquid Tamiflu".

No shiat...I was expecting some horror show involving Drano, Nyquil and a pressure cooker.

Did you know that tablets can be ground into powder and masked by sweet syrups too? It's true!! Give me a while and I'll provide detailed instructions!

I did not receive the memo about Tamiflu or what it is. I miss all of the drug memos.

+ = better in 24-48 hours

Or the 'South Park' treatment.

/YRMV

Just don't use Worcestershire sauce, you'll get pinkeye...

Dumbass subby. "If your kid can't swallow a pill you can crush up the pill and dissolve it in liquid!" No shiat, eh.

I got a portable Tamiflu lab on my moped.

came for the Homer Simpson reference

leaving unsatisfied

I got a think liquid the children just love.

Even with duck tape it's still extremely difficult to make a liquid nuclear bomb!

Steve Martin's how to be a millionaire and never pay taxes..... First, get a million dollars....

dahmers love zombie: That's sort of like saying that you can make a backpack nuke at home, provided you have access to a nuclear weapon and a backpack.
Yeah, but if you find a backpack nuke in your garden what's the local Chief of Police going to do if you take it down to the station to turn it in?

Just came to make sure subby was properly buttraped for the misleading headline.

I thought sure that there was some issue with the adult caps strength and having to split the dose up, etc. Nope. Just open the farking capsule and sprinkle it on some applesauce. And there are detailed directions on how to do so. Amazing.

A good pharmacy will offer this to you. A chain pharmacy often has a pharmacist who is a contractor who does not care if you come back or not. He gets paid if he compounds your prescription or not.

All pharmacies are required to have the basic equipment to compound simply prescriptions such as taking something from tablet/capsule form to suspension for people who can't swallow pills.

An independent pharmacy would offer this as they want your business. I use a compounding pharmacy.

No, this was not posed. Really found this in a pharmacy the other day. So that's what pharmacists think of this whole thing. Just so you know....

\pharmacy auditor

Okay,now that I RTFA, ya, they do this all the time. Probably explains my pic, doesn't it?

I remember having to take that stuff when I caught the flu in Air Force boot camp. It turned my shiat green -.-.

Who wants chow-duh ?

Consumerist is one of those sites I want to like, they're heart is in the right place, but they are raging tards so it's difficult.

FTFA: "I returned to CVS, asked the pharmacist if this could be done. I was told that it would take a half-hour. I am furious that he did not volunteer this information the first time around."

Well, that is because he isn't a doctor, and he isn't a chemist. I'm sure that is something went wrong and your kid died, he would be personally held on the line. I don't think CVS condones their pharmacy techs homebrewing medicinal remedies, and even telling someone to "buy this, and mix it with 'a', wait a while, and inhale it" might get them in trouble, but I'll ask my roommate when he gets home, since he works as a pharm tech at a CVS.

Reading comprehension isn't subby's strong point is it?

They're = their.

Darth Cheney:



/stupid filters,

RoxtarRyan: Well, that is because he isn't a doctor, and he isn't a chemist.

If he is a pharmacist as the article says, then yes, he is a doctor of pharmacy, and he should have years of chemistry under his belt. Reformulation is something they do all the time anyway, and requires very little deep knowledge of medicine or chemistry.

FriarReb98: No, this was not posed. Really found this in a pharmacy the other day. So that's what pharmacists one pharmacist with a sense of humour thinks of this whole thing. Just so you know....

\pharmacy auditor

FTFY. I bet you wrote a very cry-baby-esque letter to Consumerist about it, too.

dahmers love zombie

Um, the directions are "Take Tamiflu capsules, open them, and mix them with liquid to make liquid Tamiflu". That's sort of like saying that you can make a backpack nuke at home, provided you have access to a nuclear weapon and a backpack.

Yeah really. No problem getting a nuclear weapon but where am I gonna get a backpack?

You know that you're not going to DIE from Flu in the vast majority of cases, right?

And that Tamiflu makes you vomit real bad for the first two days?

And you get better in about 5 days with Tamiflu, or 7 without it?

How about sucking it up, taking some pain meds, and laying in bed for a week. Preferably with a large dose of 'shut the fsck up moaning'.....

Bacontastesgood: If he is a pharmacist as the article says, then yes, he is a doctor of pharmacy, and he should have years of chemistry under his belt.

My roommate? Pharmacy tech employed by CVS. High school diploma, and did 3 years in the Army as infantry. Plays WoW and D&D. Now, not to put him down, but do you want him (and all the other finely qualified personnel people who CVS employs) giving you advice on how to treat your kid for the flu based off of something he read off the internet?

Americans have a warped sense of priorities.

Also, they're stupid.

1- Pharmacists are doctors.
2- Not all pharmacists are good doctors.

One of the pharmacists at my pharmacy (I am an intern) is making me do all Tamiflu compounding. Not because she is busy, but because she does not know how. She has a doctorate and cannot convert capsules to milligrams to mg/ml. It is so bad in my chain that the corporate managers had to send out a cheat-sheet on compounding for the mathtards making 60 dollars an hour.

Synopsis:

Panicky self-entitled woman is panicky and self-entitled.

Good to know that we're letting all the flu viruses in the wild build up a resistance to the main anti-flu drug we have so that on the offchance you get this mild form of flu whilst taking the drug, it'll be a bit milder.

RoxtarRyan: Bacontastesgood: If he is a pharmacist as the article says, then yes, he is a doctor of pharmacy, and he should have years of chemistry under his belt.

My roommate? Pharmacy tech employed by CVS. High school diploma, and did 3 years in the Army as infantry. Plays WoW and D&D. Now, not to put him down, but do you want him (and all the other finely qualified personnel people who CVS employs) giving you advice on how to treat your kid for the flu based off of something he read off the internet?

At most chains, a tech giving medical advice would be immediately terminated. My techs are not even allowed to say "Oh, you have sniffles and post nasal drip? Take benadryl or chlortabs"

Oh, it will end well, all right.


Just as Darwin intended.

Anybody want some of my home made Prozac?



/needs more ice cream