Saturday, July 4, 2009

Tips for Choose Right a Cough Medicine


by Tofan Afandhi


If your experience pain in the throat and cough, I am sure you will be insting drink cough medicine. But if you know that there are different types of cough medicine. If you do not drink cough medicine to directly target the symptoms of cough symptoms that your suffering will not recover quickly.


Please note that the cough reflex is a defense the body to remove foreign objects from the channel of breath. Coughing also helps protect the lung of aspiration that is the entrance of foreign channels from the top of the breath. Is the channel of breath from the throat, trakea, bronkus, bronkhioli network to tuberculosis.


Coughing can be caused by infections such as bacterial infection or not, such as dust. Cough can be divided into two type. They are the cough with sputum is due to the phlegm in the throat and cough without sputum because there is irritation in the throat so that channels pain relief.


Cough medications have 2 do with drugs and non drugs :


1. Non-drug therapy with how often to drink water to help thin sputum, reducing the irritation or itchiness. In addition to avoid dust, food or drink that stimulates the throat.


2. Drug therapy is to take the medicine according to the type of cough. When cough with sputum should take the medicine that can help ekspektoran dilute sputum. For example guaifenesin, bromheksin, succus liquiritiae and ammonium klorida. In addition, if the type of dry cough or without sputum should drink antitusif drugs that act on the cough center of the central nervous system. For example dektrometorfan HBr, noskapin and difenhidramin HCl.


To note when someone suffering from cough and lasted more than 3 days after treatment alone or no improvement, or to be more heavy cough, sputum mixed with blood or green / yellow, then immediately packed to consult a doctor.


Cough medicines are intended to alleviate the symptoms of cough, especially productive coughing. On infants and children must be considered when symptoms develop pneumonia, among others, a quick breath or shortness of breath, consult a doctor immediately.
Tips so that I can give, hopefully useful ..


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