If you have bacteria-ridden mucus in your lungs (green junk), and expectorant can help get it out.
Expectorant - cough it up (a medicine which promotes the secretion of sputum by the air passages, used to treat coughs).
Mucolytic - breaks up the mucus so it's easier to move.
This one contains guaiphenesin (100mg per 5mL) and bromhexine hydrochloride (3mg per 5mL).
The guaiphenesin is your expectorant and the bromhexine hydrochloride is your mucolytic.
The guaiphenesin will also make medicines like paracetamol have a greater effect.
Even when you get over the counter medication, do check with the pharmacist for any drug interactions with other things you may be on.
I was told to take less than the full adult dose if I intend to also take Seretide.
Knowledge is power.
The flavour is listed as strawberry and vanilla... strawberry and vanilla my butt!
Like all cough syrup, it tastes like misery.
Half an hour after taking it, I cough up some mucus and feel less terrible.
Price: 4/5 ($9.95 for 200mL)
Scent: 1/5
Effectiveness: 4/5
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