What r triple cs(coricidin cold and cough) long term effects on your body and mind?
Coricidin Cough and Cold or CCC is a cold medication for people with high blood pressure which contains dextromethorphan or DXM. DXM is the only psychoactive ingredient in CCC. CCC does however contain Chlorpheniramine Maleate as an active ingredient. Each CCC tablet contains 30 mg of DXM and 4 mg Chlorpheniramine Maleate. “High doses of Chlorpheniramine Maleate can cause severe and life-threatening symptoms including seizures, loss of consciousness, bleeding from skin, mouth, rectum, and vagina, and possibly death”. (http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/dxm/dxm_health.shtml) Although the LD 50 of Chlorpheniramine Maleate is apparently unknown and apparently relatively high, in combination with DXM it is dangerous. “This is an anticholinergic drug, a class of drug which in general is very dangerous to take in large doses with dextromethorphan. Worse yet, chlorpheniramine maleate is also metabolized by the same liver enzyme (known as CYP-2D6) as is DXM. The competition for this limited enzym
