Cold Medicine from Mexico - I have some here, is it safe?!

Cold Medicine from Mexico - I have some here, is it safe?

I have some cold medicine that a friend gave me that she got in Mexico...I don't know what its called because all I have is some tablets, but they are still in the plastic/foil wrapping...they are blue and they say PNE on them...on the back of the foil it says "Nueva Formula"

I guess they are supposed to work wonders for the flu, colds, etc....but I'm scared to take them without knowing exactly what they are....I'm not alergic to anything. Someone help!

4 months ago
....True, but there is a picture of a pregnant woman on the back with an X over it, so I am pretty sure its sometype of medicine...

But your right, I think I will just go get something else...

Whenever I take a pill, whether it's prescription or not, I think about the level of trust involved in that act. I have to trust the doctor prescribed me the right medicine, not something that is going to make me sicker. I have to trust that the company that made the pill put the right amount of the right kind of drug in there and nothing else. I also have to trust that the pill factory was hygienic, that people weren't running their dirty hands and feet through the buckets of pills or whatever. Then I have to trust that the pharmacist has properly read my doctor's handwriting and given me the right pill, the right strength and got the instructions right. I also have to trust that no one switched the pills in the store room, or stole them and replaced them with mothballs or the like.

So if someone gives you a pill, with minimal labeling, from a foreign country with lax controls over its pharmaceutical industry, do you think it's worth the risk? Should you take an unknown mystery pill? You don't know if it has heroin, speed, ecstasy, viagra or any unwanted or illegal ingredients. For all you know it could be tablets to kill algae in a fish tank, Easter egg dye tablets or automotive octane booster tablets; any of those could be "Nueva Formula". Or would it be easier to go down to the drugstore and cough up (so to speak) $5 for a package of medicine you can read?