AboutDr. Ravindra Bhaskar Ghooi Expertise I can provide information on drugs and medicines, their actions, uses, interactions and adverse effects. To avoid confusion, generic names of
medicines may please be provided. I am a pharmacologist, having worked
on animal and human pharmacology, and presently I am the Dean of Bilcare Research Academy, where we teach courses on clinical research. We dont work on saturdays and sundays, hence questions reachng me on these days will be replied on Monday, please bear with me.
Question QUESTION: If you take all of these alka-seltzer plus contac sudafed and tylenol cold mulit-sympton severe would you show a positive for meth? Because i had a drug test and i'm in the military and also a work for a delievery company. Well i got real sick but needed the money so i bought alot of these type of medication and others for chest and nasal congestion and was taking them non-stop for a week and two days all the way up to taht morning of the urinary testing i need to know because i dont do it never have and i might get kicked out please help thank you so much for your time. hopefully i didnt confuess you if i miss spelled or anything. thank you
ANSWER: Hi Chris,
Most drug tests employed now a days are quite specific and accurate. These tests depend either on antibodies or on chemical identification using very modern gadgetry. I do not think that with sudafed and alka seltzer, you will not test positive for the drugs they are testing. Mainly they are searching for the illicit use of drugs like opioids, methamphetamine, benzodiazepines, cocaine, or cannabinoids.
Overall I see little reason for you to worry, since these medicines are not likely to land you in trouble, but if something does go wrong lease get back to me.
Ravi Ghooi
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QUESTION: well thank you i found the other medication i was taking.But im not prescribe it no more and i dont know what to do i try to get my new doctor to write something for me saying i was taking it for and upper respiratory decongestion allergey medication it was puesphedrine or something like that. but i came out positive and i dont know what to do i have never done nothing wrong in my life and im scared. please get back to me. i still have the same cold for the last 4 months im coughing blood from time to time from coughing to hard and everytime i blow my nose im always blowing out blood i have ask my doctor and he tells me nothing to worry and he gave me a bunch of trail medication and i dont even know but i cant sleep when i i was on the medication. i just know of the puesphedrine one and he told i might have trouble sleeping if anything let me know.
Answer Hi Chris,
Instead of sitting a worrying to no end, please do the following:
1. Collect all your recent prscriptions and the medications given to you by your doctor and take them to the testing enter.
2. Tell them that these medcatons have been given to you by a doctor and you are merely following your doctor's advice.
3. Ask them to check the medications for themselves and find the reason why you have tested positve.This will make the testng centr think a bit and may be they will redo the test.
Ravi Ghooi
