What is the medicine for coughing?

Coughing lozenges are lozenges used to treat coughs, but they look like lozenges and lozenges, which taste delicious and sweet like candy so many people call them.

In the past, the pharmaceutical industry had to manufacture sugar tablets (now very rarely used in this form of medicine), when it is found to be sweet, many people think that oral tablets can be sucked like candy. In fact, only the pill is indicated as being used by sucking, so it is not allowed to suck in other tablets. If there is medicine, it will not only reduce the quality of treatment of the drug, but it can also be caused by drug-related complications such as dissolvable tablets in the intestine of Aspirin pH8. Aspirin releases in the stomach, causing damage to the stomach lining.

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Lozenges are drugs that the user does not swallow but the medicine is kept in the oral cavity or placed under the tongue.

The lozenges are drugs that the user does not swallow but the medicine is kept in the oral cavity or placed under the tongue and allowed to dissolve to allow the substance to release and absorb through the oral mucosa, under the tongue to enter the blood or for local effects. The lozenges are prepared with a fragrant, sweet taste, so it is suitable for dissolving them. It is also suitable for use in cases where patients have difficulty taking pills but are vomiting, or have gastrointestinal diseases such as peptic ulcers.

Sweet lozenges are due to sweetening excipients: sugar cane (saccharose) or artificial sweetener (such as aspartame) for people with diabetes or diabetes.

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Coughing lozenges are lozenges used to treat coughs but like lozenges.

Coughing lozenges are lozenges used to treat coughs, but they look like lozenges and lozenges, which taste delicious and sweet like candy so many people call them. However, according to the vision, it should not be called lozenges, which are lozenges. Because, when calling medicine is candy, it is easy to mistakenly think that it is something that is arbitrary. There have been many reports in the world that children hear medicine as candy (many parents call it that they will be more likely to take medicine) stealthily stealing medicine and poisoning. For medicine, do not use the word "candy" to call but it is better to call it medicine.

Cough lozenges often contain active ingredients that reduce coughs such as menthol, menthol (eucalyptol), or contain cough suppressants such as dextromethorphan . Even lozenges Eastern medicine as: lozenges.

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Slowly dissolve the medicine, avoid chewing the pill.

We need to know, cough is a common symptom. Particularly in children very susceptible to cough due to susceptible to respiratory infections, susceptible to ENT diseases leading to cough receptors. We also need to know that coughing is a protective physiological reflex. It is because of the cough manifested by a strong exhalation that helps clear the airway, expel the secretion, secretions or foreign objects into the respiratory tract, helping the respiratory villi to function well. There are some cases such as bronchial asthma, acute bronchitis, need cough to expel viscous sputum, but using drugs to inhibit cough reflexes is not beneficial, only harmful.

Particularly cold in the rainy season makes it easy for adults and children to cough. Some experts recommend that you only need to keep warm, full of nutrients, drink more water, especially orange juice or lemon juice to increase resistance, and you will be able to go away on your own after a few days and do not need medication. At this time, you can also use cough suppressant tablets (only for adults and relatively large children).

Doctor's advice:

Use cough suppressant tablets, note:

  1. Before and after putting the medicine in your mouth, you need to wash your hands clean.
  2. Slowly dissolve the medicine, avoid chewing the pill.
  3. Particularly for children, for children to take the pill to cough for three days without feeling better, they should take their children to the doctor.
  4. From the beginning, if the child is suspected of having an infection with an infection leading to a cough, it is necessary to take the child to the doctor for examination, not for the child to "cough" the cough.