Difference in lemsip products.

[Skeptic]

*Please no medical advice as I am fully well now....ish!*

When I was at the peak of my flu I was taking the usual nonsense to feel alive and noticed a strange thing by Lemsip.

Their normal flu tablets contain the exact same 'active' ingredients (in both chemical name and quantity) as their supposed 'sinus directed' tablets. The sinus ones say 'targeted relief' and all that, but, and here is my question, how is that possible if they're exactly the same?

Perhaps unsurprisingly the ASDA own brand ones contain the same too.

Perhaps a chemist could explain how these might differ, or whether it's just marketing the same product differently! Needless to say I think it's a bit misleading!

PLEASE NO ADVICE I JUST WANT TO KNOW THE ANSWER!!

 

[Skeptic]

Isn't that a tiny bit illegal? Selling two separate products (for different prices) which are the same, but suggesting they're not!

I was just wondering whether there's more in the tablets which would, say, direct the ingredients towards the sinus'. I'm more of a brain specialist than a medical man

 

[Skeptic]

the active ingredients may be the same, but many of the other ingredients still have a considerable effect on the way the drug works, and those won't be the same.

Do you happen to know what the other ingredients might be? The two boxes in front of me now say under ingredients;

Lemsip max (normal) 500mg paracetamol / 6.1mg phenylephrine hydrochloride / 25g caffeine.

Sinus ones; the same as above.

Are there more ingredients in there than what are labeled? I know this isn't really an important question but your mind runs wild when ill!