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Cough Medicines: Suppressants & Expectorants

Cough suppressants may act centrally on the brain or locally on the respiratory tract to suppress the cough reflex. Cough suppressants include dextromethorphan (DXM), noscapine, ethyl morphine and codeine. Expectorants thin the mucus that blocks the air tubes leading to the lungs. This makes the mucus easier to cough up. The most common expectorant is Guaifenesin.

Don't take cough medicine drops if you are under 18! It felt like a stimulant for me

I took this product a while back for mild coughing and the Normethdane was like a stimulant to me back when i was 17 and i had head shakes and hand shaking along with tremors. That night i went to the hospital cuz they had told me 5 drops every night. Apparently this amount of drops is wayyyy too...

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Possible allergy to cough medicine causing toothache/mouth and throat problems.

Answered by a doctor

Hello, About a month and a half ago, I started having tooth pain in my lower right molars. I went in to the dentist and they assumed it was wisdom teeth at first (I'm 20 years old) but they took an x-ray and saw that there was no wisdom tooth trying to grow in. They determined that I had an...

by User avatar Befera