my mom came down with a bad chest cold and cough today, she is on hydrocodon-acetaminophen 5- 325mg. takes half a pill at night. I was going to give her nyquil severe cold and flu but it says nyquil contains acetaminiphen as well.Just worried about drug interactions if she was to take it or whether it would be better to take robitussen cough and congestion DM Thanks
Hello, As you have not mentioned your mothers age in this post I'm considering her to be somewhere around late 40s. As an adult, she can tolerate up to 500 to 600 mg of acetaminophen given no history of liver disorders. So you need not necessarily worry about the interaction. Moving on, if she is just having a day of cold symptoms without fever you can of course try NyQuil along with Robitussin for the cough only at night. Additionally, she can also try steam inhalation and humidifiers for symptomatic relief. Ask her to remain well HY Chat Doctor.  If there is nasal congestion she might try nasal saline sprays as well. These are all supportive measures and have no adverse effects. If she develops fever, abdominal symptoms or respiratory difficulty then it is advisable for you to visit you PCP, just to rule out flu or strep. At this point of time assuming it to be just a day of symptoms I would say this is likely viral and a post viral cough syn