Coughing is the main sign of a cold, which causes a lot of problems. Many people with the onset of the cool season suffer from cough syndrome, it becomes more difficult to work, sleep normally and eat. The cough brings inconvenience not only to the patient, but also to all people around him. What are the combined cough drugs?
When choosing a medicine, you can not self-medicate, you should seek the help of a doctor and prescribe a medicine. But, if the patient decided to purchase the medicine on his own (without the recommendations of a medical specialist), you need to remember that the drug must be purchased depending on the type of cough.
Cough Symptoms
If at least one of these signs occurs, you should contact your doctor and begin to eliminate the ailment:
- hoarse voice;
- bouts of vomiting;
- rhinitis and nasal congestion;
- dyspnea;
- enlarged lymph nodes in the neck;
- pain when swallowing;
- difficulty breathing
- weakness;
- increase in body temperature;
- pain in the muscles and head area;
- loss of appetite.
Causes
The cough reflex is considered the main sign of most pulmonary diseases, although its manifestation does not always indicate lung pathologies. Diseases that provoke a cough reflex:
- Allergy (a typical immunopathological process, expressed by hypersensitivity of the body's immune system with repeated exposure of the allergen to the organism previously sensitized by this allergen).
- Influenza (an acute infectious disease of the respiratory tract caused by the influenza virus).
- Cold.
- Whooping cough (acute anthroponous airborne bacterial infection, the most characteristic sign of which is paroxysmal spasmodic cough).
- Pharyngitis (acute or chronic inflammatory process localized in the pharynx, affecting its mucous membrane and deeper layers).
- Tonsillitis (prolonged inflammation of the pharyngeal and palatine tonsils).
- Pleurisy (inflammation of the serous membranes covering the lungs and forming the pleural cavity).
In chemical plants where people work with harmful volatile substances, workers need to wear specialized masks to prevent chemical microelements from entering the respiratory system. If you ignore these rules and do not wear respirators, then there is irritation of the mucous membrane, which can lead to a cough reflex.
In most cases, they fight with cough, and depending on the specific situation, certain drugs are used. Preparations against cough syndrome act differently. Some medications prevent the onset of coughing, affecting the cough center. Other medicines act on the mucous cavities of the bronchi or pathological secret (sputum).
Features of combination drugs
The main distinguishing feature of these drugs is that they have a complex effect on cough syndrome and its source. Due to this, you can significantly reduce the list of drugs that are used to eliminate this pathology. But you must remember that you need to choose such medications very carefully.
Recently, more and more to eliminate this ailment, a combined cough medicine, which contains several useful substances, with other types of drugs has been combined. Combined medicines are able to provide:
- antitussive;
- bronchodilator;
- antihistamine;
- mucolytic;
- expectorant effects.
In addition, the structure of such drugs may include antipyretic and antibacterial trace elements.
Such drugs are highly effective and help to achieve the desired result in just a few applications.
In addition to the positive effects, there are still prohibitions on the use and there is a high risk of a huge number of side effects depending on the number of medicinal trace elements.
Overview of Combined Cough Medicine
Cough syndrome is an unpleasant symptom that requires mandatory therapy. In most situations, the structure of combined preparations includes substances that have a different effect on the source itself. Thanks to drugs, it is possible to suppress or strengthen the formation of pathological secretions, to make it the least dense. When coughing combine the use of drugs, capsules, suspensions and combination preparations in various forms.
Combined drugs help to alleviate the condition of the patient and relieve him of cough syndrome, but before using them, you should consult a medical specialist. Since you need to determine the type of cough, evaluate the symptoms, pain and their source of manifestation. Therapists can select the most diverse research methods, taking into account the patient's condition and the severity of the disease.
All this provokes certain problems in choosing the right dosage and the combination of combined antitussive medicines with other drugs. It is necessary to carry out the therapy of diseases of the throat, nose and lungs with the help of such funds in childhood under the supervision of a doctor.
What are the best dry cough combination medications?
Drug List
The number of complex medicines used for coughing is quite diverse. When eliminating a cough syndrome, adult patients are most often prescribed the following good cough syrups with a combined effect, for example:
- "Herbion".
- "Dr. Mom."
- "Broncholitin".
- Stoptussin.
- "Codelac Fito".
The inflammatory process in the respiratory tract can lead to pain in the chest and fluids with an admixture of pus, this condition requires an instant visit to the doctor.
What substances are included in combination drugs
To eliminate the various symptoms of the disease, combined cough medicines can be prescribed for adults, the structure of which includes paracetamol, antibacterial and antihistamines.
"Flemoxin" refers to combination drugs that contain mucolytic agents and antibiotics. In most cases, a medication is prescribed to eliminate the cough syndrome that occurs with pneumonia, as well as acute and chronic bronchitis.
If a cough is combined with an increase in body temperature, then therapy can be carried out using drugs that contain paracetamol and antispasmodics. As a rule, the most effective drugs of such a pharmacological group are, for example:
- "Influenza".
- Solpadein.
- "Codefemol".
The complex of cough syndrome with swelling of the mucous membrane of the bronchial cavity and nasopharynx requires the use of drugs that have an antitussive and disinfecting effect. To eliminate the inflammatory disease that affects the final section of the respiratory tract, the following combination drugs can be prescribed, for example:
- "Conduct".
- "Phenylephrine."
- "Gripeks".
- "Broncholitin".
What other combined drugs are there?
In most cases, a cough is associated with swelling of the mucous membrane of the respiratory system and irritation, so therapy in such situations should be carried out using drugs that have a block of histamine receptors in the body. They are able to have a sedative effect on the affected mucous membrane and inhibit the cough reflex. To alleviate the condition of the patient and eliminate cough, the following remedies are recommended, for example:
- "Toff Plyubs".
- "Vic Medinait".
- Gripmax Night.
The combination of indirect action adrenomimetics with histamine microelements increases coughing and helps to relieve swelling of the epithelial tissue of the respiratory system. A remarkable effect in the elimination of bronchitis, tracheitis and other respiratory infections is recommended by such combined cough medicines, for example:
- "Vocasept".
- "Broncho Coldact".
If there are problems with breathing and nasal discharge, it prescribes the use of medicines with an antihistamine effect. If pus impurities are formed in the pathological secretion, it is strictly forbidden to use such drugs, since they can cause thickening of sputum (in case of frontal sinusitis, sinusitis and sinusitis).
The benefits of combination drugs in tablets
Antitussive complex preparations can be made in the following forms:
The most popular and convenient among children over eight years of age, as well as teenagers and adult patients are considered tablets. This is expressed by the presence of significant advantages:
- Compactness. To move does not require a lot of space. You can take any amount of the drug with you, cutting it off from a blister or taking it from a jar in a special pill box.
- A wide variety of release forms - capsules, effervescent tablets, sucking tablets, chewable tablets.
- The convenience of use. Unlike drops and syrup, tablets are enough to just drink with water.
- The speed of the procedure. Put the tablet in the mouth to drink or dissolve it in less than a minute. Cough tablets begin to work after use, maintain a prolonged effect, facilitate the patient's condition.
"Codelac Broncho": instructions for use
Among all combination drugs for cough treatment, "Codelac Broncho" remains one of the most highly effective, with the help of which it actively affects the central nervous system, reducing the excitability of the cough reflex and inhibiting cough. Instructions for use with Codelac broncho indicate that this drug has a complex effect:
- expectorant;
- mucolytic;
- secretory motor;
- anti-inflammatory.
With these properties, the medication helps to quickly alleviate the patient’s condition with various inflammation of the respiratory system.
Composition "Codelac Broncho"
The structure of the drug includes the following active trace elements - Ambroxol, Thermopsis or liquid thyme extract.
- Ambroxol is able to have an expectorant effect, enhances the discharge of pathological secretion, helps to quickly dilute sputum and the formation of a substance that prevents the alveoli from falling into the lungs.
- Thermopsis has plant organic alkalis, which lead to increased secretion of bronchial glands due to mild itching of nerve endings and increase sputum discharge. At the same time, this substance has an exciting effect on the respiratory center.
- Sodium bicarbonate in the drug reduces the viscosity of the pathological secretion, reducing it to the alkaline side, stimulates the motor function of the bronchi, accelerating their purification from mucus.
- Sodium glycyrate has anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and antiviral effects.
- Thyme extract has an expectorant, anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect.
The medication is produced in two pharmacological forms:
Codelac Broncho Combined Cough Syrup is intended for both children and adult patients. Like tablets, it must be taken with meals, washed down with water. Dosage for adults and adolescents from twelve years old is ten milliliters up to four times a day, for children from six to twelve years old five milliliters three times a day, children from two to six years should use two and a half milliliters three times a day. For children under two years of age, giving “Codelac broncho” even in the form of a syrup is not recommended. The duration of therapy is no more than five days, only a medical specialist can extend the course.
"Broncholitin"
The medication refers to combined cough medicines for children. The structure of the syrup includes the following active ingredients - ephedrine, glaucin.
The use of the drug must be done after meals:
- Adults and patients over ten years of age should consume ten milliliters of syrup up to four times a day.
- Children from three to ten years old are prescribed five milliliters of syrup three times a day.
The duration of treatment should not be longer than seven days. If there is no result, it is necessary to clarify the diagnosis and change the treatment regimen. Syrup is also not recommended for patients up to three years of age and with the occurrence of individual intolerance to the microelements of the drug.
"Dr. Mom"
It is considered a medicine of natural origin, which can have a pronounced mucolytic effect and is recommended for children and adult patients to facilitate the discharge of pathological secretions and improve the productivity of cough syndrome.
The drug is suitable both for eliminating acute inflammation of the respiratory system, and for the treatment of exacerbations of chronic diseases that are accompanied by dry cough.
At what age is it allowed to take the drug?
Dr. Mom is a combination cough medicine for children. The medicine in the form of a syrup is recommended to be taken by patients depending on the age and severity of the signs of the disease in the following dosage:
- Children from three years old - two and a half milliliters of the drug three times a day after meals. If necessary, the drug can be diluted with water or tea.
- Adult patients should take two measuring cups of syrup three times a day.
The duration of treatment with “Doctor Mom” is determined by the doctor purely individually, but, as a rule, therapy should not be longer than one week.
The medication is not suitable for the treatment of children under three years of age due to the high risk of bronchospasm and the appearance of severe allergic manifestations.