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Sunday, September 18, 2011

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.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Common Cold Medicines: Choose (Only) Medicines You Need!

As we know, now there are plenty of common cold medicines in market, and most of them is available over-the-counter. But do you know what are the active ingredients of each medicines? Are they suitable with your symptoms? In this article, I will describe some active components in common cold medicines, with the analysis of each benefits of them.