Physiological responses of coughing itself is a protective, when some stimulation of respiratory tract, such as noxious fumes and gases, sputum, foreign body, stimulate through afferent nerve cough caused by Central, will lead to a cough. It can avoid these harmful substances on the human respiratory tract damage. So in normal circumstances, a mild cough without taking cough medicine.
If you frequent, severe cough, which affects learning, work, or sleep, only medication. Cough, expectoration, it\'s time for what? Should be under no situation of sputum, sputum and phlegm liquid medication.
1, non productive: non productive application of Central cough medicine. Central cough medicine is a special class of drugs, indications of a strict, applies only to the dramatic non productive. It has immediate effect while coughing, but inhibition of Central will have a strong cough, also addicted after taking some time and should not be taken without authorization, you must have a doctor\'s prescription, and only a small number of short-time use. The elderly, pregnant women and children should avoid taking Central cough medicine.
2, sputum cough: to disable Central antitussive drug in patients with sputum, much phlegm or sputum in patients with a thick,, to select an expectorant or resolving phlegm and cough medicine. Phlegm and fluid retention in the body, not only cause the respiratory pathogen growth, lead to deterioration of the inflammation, also blocked bronchial, hypoxia, breathing difficulties, and so on. Central antitussive drug may inhibit coughing sputum blocked due to reflection, aggravated the illness, even suffocation. Even select expectorant or resolving phlegm and cough medicine to choose according to the nature of the sputum.
Sputum is grey white sticky phlegm, apart from treatment of primary disease, the choice of compound mixture of Brown, adult 10 ml each time, 3 times daily, discretion reduction in children. The efficacy of medicine include cough, phlegm. Also available ammonium chloride, adult-0. 3~0. 6 g, 3 times daily, 30~60 mg/kg per day for children. Ammonium chloride can cause nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, irritation, so should be on a full stomach, liver and kidney dysfunction and used with caution in patients with gastric ulcer. Can also be combined with bromhexine hydrochloride (bromhexine hydrochloride), 16 mg, 3 times daily, children each 4~8 mg 2 times daily. Nausea, stomach discomfort, used with caution in patients with gastric ulcer. Honey fritillary and loquat cough and expectorant preparations of traditional Chinese medicine ointment, each 10 ml, 3 times daily, but due to high sugar content, disable in diabetic patients.
When the thick hard to cough up sputum, when above Huatan drugs do not, the choice of n-acetylcysteine (acetylcysteine), the medicine can make sticky protein decomposition in sputum, and sputum becomes thin, easy to cough. The drug as a spray, 10% solution of adult 1~3 ml each time, 2 times daily, children should be under the guidance of doctors make gas pipeline injection. Its adverse effects are nausea, vomiting, bronchial spasm, it disabled in patients with asthma. Another cough medicine gelomyrtol, each 30 mg, 3 times daily. Both of these drugs in addition to the phlegm thin out external, but also promote bronchial mucosa ciliary movement and protection, is by far the best expectorant medicine.
When sputum is yellow or green pus, notes associated with infection, so apart from drug selection of relieving cough and reducing sputum, still need antibiotics. Conditions are needed to hospitals, and sent sputum culture checks. Sputum culture positive then the effect of drug sensitivity test in select antibiotics, sputum culture negative according to usual effectiveness of drugs used, selection of antibiotic-resistant infections. At the same time strengthening postural drainage, such as taking back.
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