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Product: Midol
Menstrual CompleteLabel: Ask a doctor
before use if you have difficulty urinating due to an enlarged prostate.Sound advice from Merck. But should sufferers of
premenstrual syndrome really lose sleep over enlarged prostates?
That's from a collection on the
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website. At first glance, it seems senseless. But I
suspect that the warning is FDA-mandated for all products containing
antihistamines, which this does.
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