Mucoactive Agents for Productive Cough: What are The Choices?

Mucoactive agents are medicines/agents that affect mucus properties and promote secretion clearance. These agents are useful in productive cough where hypersecretion of mucus is predominant, but practically not useful at all in dry cough. There are several subgroups of mucoactive agents. Four of them are listed and described below. Note that one agent may have been classified more than in one subgroup. The important mucoactive is mucokinetic medicines and mucolytic medicines.