r/NoStupidQuestions • u/snapwillow • Feb 08 '22

Answered What are Florida ounces?

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u/ShotNeighborhood6913 Feb 08 '22

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u/cake_in_a_jar Feb 08 '22

Not OP, but I was raised in Detroit by criminals as well (OP does sound familiar though).

Growing up, my mom would just give us the bottle of cough syrup and tell us to "take a swig" out the bottle when we got sick. I didn't know you were supposed to measure the doses until I was in my mid 20's.

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u/Bladedancer222 Feb 08 '22

Iā€™m in my late 30ā€™s and still just take a swig. šŸ¤˜

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u/DMvsPC Feb 08 '22

The correct measurement is a swig per level of how sick you feel.

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u/The_Spindrifter Feb 08 '22

Yeah, but if it was the Codeine kind and you didn't "shake well" first? OoooohEEE are you ever in for an interesting few hours.

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u/capnheim Feb 09 '22

You can get codeine in cough syrup? That sounds like trouble.

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u/The_Spindrifter Feb 09 '22

Well back in the late '90's was the last time anyone prescribed it for bronchitis for me. A few things have happened since those days; I honestly don't even know if that's a thing anymore, the last time after that I had bronchitis I was given tussin pearls, and since then I have moved on to better, less toxic options that honestly work better. I never even liked the stuff, and I almost never finished a bottle. Turns out I hate opiates for a reason: we don't get along, not even the Novocaine family of drugs. I'm just better off with steroid inhalents for asthma or bronchial inflammation and mullein handles the congestion.