Components:

Phenylpropanolamine Hcl, Guaifenesin, Ambroxol, Noscapine, Chlorpheniramine Maleate, Chlorpheniramine, Phenylephrine

Medically reviewed by Militian Inessa Mesropovna, PharmD. Last updated on 26.06.2023

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Coflin

Name of the medicinal product

Coflin

Therapeutic indications

An indication is a term used for the list of condition or symptom or illness for which the medicine is prescribed or used by the patient. For example, acetaminophen or paracetamol is used for fever by the patient, or the doctor prescribes it for a headache or body pains. Now fever, headache and body pains are the indications of paracetamol. A patient should be aware of the indications of medications used for common conditions because they can be taken over the counter in the pharmacy meaning without prescription by the Physician.

this medicine is indicated for symptomatic control of all allergic conditions responsive to antihistamines, including hay fever, vasomotor rhinitis, urticaria, angioneurotic oedema, food allergy, drug and serum reactions, insect bites.

Also indicated for the symptomatic relief of itch associated with chickenpox in addition to that it ca treat the allergic cough.

Dosage (Posology) and method of administration

Adult 10 drops. Childn 6-12 yr 5 drops. Infant 2 drops. To be taken 3-4 times daily.

Contraindications

Intolerance to Coflin.

Pregnancy.

Special warnings and precautions for use

There are specific as well as general uses of a drug or medicine. A medicine can be used to prevent a disease, treat a disease over a period or cure a disease. It can also be used to treat the particular symptom of the disease. The drug use depends on the form the patient takes it. It may be more useful in injection form or sometimes in tablet form. The drug can be used for a single troubling symptom or a life-threatening condition. While some medications can be stopped after few days, some drugs need to be continued for prolonged period to get the benefit from it.

Coflin is used to treat cough, asthma or emphysema (lung disease).

Interaction with other medicinal products and other forms of interaction

Coflin should not be given concomitantly with other C.N.S. depressants or alcohol

Undesirable effects

CNS depression, sedation, drowsiness, lassitude, dizziness. GI upsets, anorexia, or increased appetite, epigastric pain, blurring of vision, dysuria, dryness of mouth, tightness in chest, hypotension, muscular weakness, tinnitus, euphoria, headache, paradoxical CNS stimulation.

Potentially Fatal: CV collapse and respiratory failure and there is also the side effects of corticosteroids if included.

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