Tablets
Another of the ‘Own Brand items’

Hayfever Tablets – Claritin, Piriton etc: Go ahead and spend upwards of £5 on a pack of tablets or just buy the supermarket own brand. The active ingredients is the same - Loratadine… should set you back about 70p for 12 tablets as opposed to a fiver for 6.

Same goes with Cold and flu tablets – (paracetamol and decongestant)
Same goes with Antacids – Zantac - £4 for 6 or Asda’s Ranitidine - £1 for 12 – it’s the same thing!!

Next time you need to buy your Beechams or Claritin, look on the side of the box for active ingredient and then look on the cheaper packets for the same ingredient. Then ask yourself what you’d prefer to buy.

Have a look in Boots for an example of how badly you can get ripped off for stuff like this….
(Pat mustard, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 8:53, 8 replies)

But...
Placebo effect means that the more expensive, branded drugs will actually be more effective. This still applies even if you know it's just placebo!
( TheAlmightyBeev, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 8:55, closed)

Correct
But the OP realises and believes that the tablets are exactly the same. So the placebo effect will not apply here.
(Boom- Clicks on NSFW links at work., Mon 14 Nov 2011, 23:34, closed)

hammerchewer
crush up your own ants and mix them with battery goo to make you own antacid
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 9:10, closed)

Fuck that.
I'm not paying for a battery.
(Kitty Fantastico "Dwarf, Anorexic and In a Fight ", Mon 14 Nov 2011, 9:39, closed)

Even better...
Get them from chemistsdirect or some such website. It is a couple of quid for a whole summer's worth of hayfever pills.
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Mon 14 Nov 2011, 10:23, closed)

agreed for loratidine
Asda 80p for 12 tablets

ChemistDirect = 30 Tablets for 66p!

Just buy say 300 for a couple of years worth
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 11:58, closed)

Zovirax cold sore cream is nearly £5 a tube
Supermarkets own which has exactly the same active ingredient for around £2.

The one thing I love about painkiller adverts is the only way they can advertise their product to be better than their competitors is to say things like "targets pain direct" then show a fancy graphic of little red pain 'molecules' getting zapped by the tablet as it somehow travels from your stomach directly through your flesh to reach that hurting back. What utter bollocks
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Mon 14 Nov 2011, 13:34, closed)

Can't beat Nurofen though...

(badgerlikespeed, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 15:30, closed)