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context: How much cough syrup were they given to die from ethylene glycol poisoning? Wikipedia says around  4 mL of PURE EG for a 20 kg child for medical treatment to be necessary. Were the bottles just pure eg? If so that's a bit more than a whoopsy.
  Pretty much everything in a pharmacy seems to be made in India, cough syrup under a lot less strict controls? 
  Going to have to think twice about my hobby of getting tiddlywinked off the 'tussin for awhile. >
  
  4 mL is less than a teaspoon. The other ingredients doesn't add much volume, they make the syrup thicker and denser. >
  
  Weird volume of replies to this topic accusing the parents of overdosing their kids. I guess it's best not to criticize the country that developed the comment mill. >
  
  There are 4 replies including mine as of this moment. Only one of em relates to your comment, so it's "reply". And the guy is just looking at it from a different perspective. So, chill. >
  
  As usual - cheaper very rarely means better (or at least comparable). We can see it not only in Indian medicines but also in Russian military - many people thought naively that cheaper tanks and artillery can perform as good as expensive western armamant - sad truth showed that it can't. >
  
  1) Why tf are u bringing the war into something not even closely related to it
  2) Cheaper need not mean better, but it also means there is no need of spending like 500$ on a medicine that would cost 10$ to produce. This is one mishap, and The Health Ministry should look into this. But health should not be 'commercialized' >
  
  I wonder if it was codeine cough syrup.