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Facts about Calpol
- Calpol is a paediatric medication which is used to treat pain and fever
- Its main ingredient is paracetemol.
- Calpol is not a sedative and contains no sedative properties whatosever.
- There are two strengths of Calpol
- Calpol Baby & Child for ages up to 6 years
- Calpol Six Plus for children aged 6 and over. This is available as a Fastmelt Tablet.
- In 2007, Calpol released a new product into the market called Calpol Night. It was used for alleviating discomfort caused by coughs and colds. Calpol Night contained Diphenhydramine which is a type of medicine called a sedating antihistamine. It enters the brain in sufficient quantities to cause drowsiness.
- Calpol Night was granted its license in January 2007
- Calpol Night was released into the market in September 2007 - four months after Madeleine McCann disappeared.
- In March 2009 , a study concluded that there was no evidence that such medicines worked for the under six age group, and that they could potentially cause side effects such as allergic reactions, effects on sleep or hallucinations.
- Calpol Night has subsequently been discontinued in the UK.
Pat Brown on Sedation
In her "profile", Pat Brown suggests the following. It should be noted that the dogs she refers to are trained to find blood and cadaver odour, but they do not differentiate between individual people. In the Shannon Matthews case, similarly trained dogs alerted to second hand furniture whose previous owners had died.
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This is what I theorize could have happened if the dogs are skilled, if the window was opened by the McCanns, and the timelines and movements of the McCanns and their friends are not exactly as stated.
Madeleine and the twins are given Calpol tablets to sedate them as the night before she and her brother were crying for her parents for possibly close to an hour (a story that was given by Kate herself).
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Clearly, if this is what happened and Madeleine died due to too much Calpol or just an unfortunate accident that wasn’t discovered earlier due to neglect, Gerry McCann would know he and Kate were in serious trouble.
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She also specified Calpol Fastmelt tablets are one point (see above under Facts about Calpol)
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| If Kate really said, ‘They have taken her!’ she could be referring to Gerry and a helper, or she could be using a generic ‘they’ for ‘he’ or she could be speaking of the Calpol Fastmelt tablets given to children (if Madeleine took too many or was given too many or just a couple caused her to have an accident), then the ‘they’ in Kate’s reference could be the tablets that caused Madeleine to ‘be taken.’) |
Numerous people quickly pointed out to Pat Brown that Calpol is not a sedative (this wiki rebuttal included). Calpol overdose also does not result in a quick death.
Despite this, on 2nd July, 2011, Pat Brown repeated her claims on Twitter:-
Calpol Night
On 2nd July 2011, Pat Brown made the following comments on Facebook. However, as is noted In "Facst about Calpol" above, although Calpol Night was granted license in january 2007, it was not released into the market until September 2007 - several months after Madeleine's disappearance.
Other comments by Pat Brown regarding Calpol and Sedation:-
Without acknowledging the straightforward fact that Calpol is not a sedative and that Calpol Night was not yet released on the market when Madeleine McCann disappeared, Pat Brown asks her readers to consider the following:-
It should be noted that there is no evidence to suggest that Madeleine McCann was a "whining child" or that her parents were in the habit of sedating any of their children.
Drug tests
On their return to the UK, the McCanns voluntarily submitted to drug tests to prove that they had not been habitually sedating their children and to prove that Kate McCann had not been taking anti-depressive drugs. The tests involved taking hair samples. As hair grows approximately half a centimetre each month, this meant that they would cover the period before and during their vacation in Praia da Luz.
All tests were negative (page 274 of Madeleine Hardback
Conclusions
Since June 2007, Pat Brown has commented on the McCann case via her blog and social networking sites. Her comments are mostly derogatory of the McCanns (see Pat Brown Blog Rebuttal)
In June 2011, she published an ebook offering her "profile" of the case and as the rebuttal page of this wiki demonstrates, it is not only filled with misinformation but also requires the reader to disregard the witness statements of the McCanns, their friends plus those of staff and guests at the Mark Warner complex.
Pat Brown's comments about Calpol are just one example of her failure to demonstrate familiarity with the basic facts of this case. Suggestions that the McCanns "sedated" their children with Calpol was an early tabloid fabrication which was quickly corrected on the forums. It is not to Pat Brown's professional credit that she seeks to redeem this most basic misinformation by offering the equally impossible Calpol Night as an alternative before finally resorting to an "any sedative will do" approach.
The bottom line is that there is no evidence to support this part of her theory.
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