With 12 million bottles sold each year, Calpol is a medicine cabinet staple in most homes, soothing childhood aches and pains thanks to its main ingredient – paracetamol. But now a leading doctor has ...

YOU can now buy Calpol scented wax melts to make your home can smell exactly your childhood. Chances are if you were ill when you were younger, you’d be given a spoonful (or two) of Calpol. Calpol was ...

KIDS are being given so much Calpol a doctor has branded it “the heroin of childhood”, a top doc has warned. Dr Chris van Tulleken revealed children are taking three times more of the ...

CALPOL is a paracetamol-based medicine for kids which is used to treat mild to moderate pain relief. Here we tell you all you need to know, from how long it takes to work, to how much you should give ...

A mum’s clever hack to get poorly babies to take their medicine is taking the Internet by storm. As any parent will appreciate when your baby is ill Calpol can be a lifeline in helping them to feel ...

Children who are given Calpol are far more likely to develop asthma, a major study has found. Those given the medicine once a month are five times more at risk while even having it just once a year ...

Acetaminophen or Paracetamol (Calpol (120mg)) helps to reduce fever and to relieve a headache with mild to moderate pain. It is also used with other pain medications to treat low back pain, ...

The CALPOL® brand has teamed up with Tesco for a new recycling trial to give people an easy way to dispose of hard-to-recycle medicine packaging and materials. With the trial running throughout Summer ...

Youngsters are given so much Calpol unnecessarily it has been dubbed “the heroin of childhood”, a medic says. New dad Dr Chris van Tulleken investigated why the UK spends £64million a year on the ...

A POPULAR children’s medicine used to remedy flu-like symptoms is in very short supply, pharmacists have warned. It comes as cases of childhood bugs surge across the country, including deadly Strep A.

It all started with a post from a mum on Facebook and led to a huge hike in hits on the NHS Choices website. When buying some Calpol in a large pharmacy chain, the poster said she had discovered, to ...