Peppermint water

Aqua are aqueous solution of volatile substance used as solvent in certain pharmaceutical preparation to mask the disagreeable taste of drug e.g. peppermint water. 

An inquest in 1999 into the death of a baby who had suffered from colic showed the danger of inappropriately administered essential oil. It appears that a prescription for peppermint water was incorrectly dispensed and either the neat or a very concentrated form of the oil was used. 

Tonic Aromatic Mixture. Digest in a close vessel for 3 days, agitating frequently, 1 ounce powdered pale cinchona baric, 3 drachms powdered calumba root, 2 drachms bruised cloves, and 4 ounce iron ings in 16 fluid ounces peppermint water strain, and add 3 fluid ounces compound tincture of cardamoms, and 3 fluid drachms tincture of orange peel. Dose. 1 or 2 table-spoonfuls or more, 3 or 4 times a day. 

To Cure Vomiting in Pregnancy. Mix 1 drachm carbonate of magnesia, k ounco tincture of Colombo, 51 ounces peppermint water. Take a table-spoonful 3 times a day. 

Goddard s Gonorrhoea Mixture, Tako 2 (Iraohrns oil of cubebs t ounce balsam of copaiba 1 ounce each eyrup of tolu and syrup of poppy 2 drachma itrong liquor of potassa 1 drachm oil of juniper and ounces peppermint water, A table-spoonful 3 times a day. 

Despite the relative lack of information about side effects related to pharmacy prepared products, there have been reports of catastrophic errors associated with them, including an error in the US that led to a 1,000-fold overdose of clonidine in a 5 year old child [1]. A high profile error also occurred in 1998 in the UK, when a baby died following a calculation error in preparing peppermint water in a community pharmacy [2]. 

Anon (1998) Baby dies after peppermint water prescription for colic. Pharm J 260 768... 

MeUi, M.S., M.R. Rashidi, and A. Delazar, et al., 2007. Effect of peppermint water on prevention of nipple cracks in lactating primiparous women A randomised controlled trial. Int. Breastfeeding J. 2 7. http // intemationalbreastfeedingjournal.com/content/2/1/7. 

Mixture of Kaolin, B.P,C, Contains approximately 13 7 per cent of light kaolin and 4 6 per cent each of magnesium carbonate and sodiiim bicarbonate in peppermint water. 

Mixture of Magnesium Sulphate, J5.P.C. Mist, Alba). A suspension of light magnesium carbonate in a solution of magnesium sulphate in peppermint water. 

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