I've done Triple C's (Coricidin Cough & Cold pills) and Delsym was way better. I highly doubt they're 100% DXM though cause every cough medicine has acetaminophen in it to reduce fever. It's actually probably got less DXM in it, to be honest.
Obviously you can extract the DXM from the cough syrup and just take that, but you'd need a lab or a chemist as a friend for that.
It says right on the lable that dextromethorphan is the only active ingredient in the cough gels. So they are fairly safe to take. Coricidin is actually one of the WORST brands of cough syrups to drink, as it contains chlorpheniramine meleate aswell as DXM.
Just google "coricidin" for info if you are skeptical. Here is a quote from a drugs forum that I frequent:
High doses ofChlorphenniramine Meleatecan cause severe and life-threatening symptoms including seizures, loss of consciousness, bleeding from skin, mouth, rectum, and vagina, and possibly death. Some brands, including Coricidin Cough and Cold contain Chlorpheniramine maleate.
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