I was thinking the other day... do medicines have calories? Tums taste like they have calories, but do they? what about the ones you just swallow? What about Nyquill? I'm curious.

I'm pretty sure that commercial cough strups do have calories.

I make my own at home and it is by far the best product I have used... and it's easy to figure out th calories:

1/3 Keyper Gin

1/3 Honey

1/3 Fir Gum (can be harder to find)

It actually works wonders and tastes yummy... Doesn't contain bunch of chemicals and the sugar is natural since it comes from honey...

Yes they do have calories, but it's not worth counting.  Tums has five and wow, nyquil has 93 and 13g of sugar! 

they do have calories. But if I am downing Nyquil chances are I am not eating a lot to begin with.

Yeah, sugary syrups would. And cough sweets like Soothers or Halls.

Even the sticky stuff on envelopes do. I think its 2 or 3 cals but I remember a local news report about the calories...weird.. maybe they were reduced.

Original Post by pinklady1709:

I was thinking the other day... do medicines have calories? Tums taste like they have calories, but do they? what about the ones you just swallow? What about Nyquill? I'm curious.

As mentioned below, Tums are 5 cals each.  However, I go ahead and log them because eaxh max strength Tum is 40% of your daily value of calcium (so I want to get credit for that!)

I wouldn't worry about other pill medicines, but cough syrups, especially the flavorful ones can have a lot of sugar.

Cough syrups often come in sugar-free versions because the regular ones are so sugary diabetics can't handle them.