{"id":6593,"date":"2024-11-17T21:24:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T21:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2024-11-17T21:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T21:24:53","slug":"anti-tussives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/17\/anti-tussives\/","title":{"rendered":"ANTI-TUSSIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cough is a protective reflex, which serves the purpose of expelling sputum and other irritant<br>materials from the respiratory airway.<br>Types:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Useful productive cough<br>o Effectively expels secretions and exudates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Useless cough<br>o Non-productive chronic cough<br>o Due to smoking and local irritants<br>Anti-tussives are drugs used to suppress the intensity and frequency of coughing.<br><strong>Two Types of Anti-tussives:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Central anti- tussives<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Suppress the medullay cough center and may be divided into two groups:<br>o Opoid antitussive e.g. codeine, hydrocodeine, etc<br>o Non opoid antitussives e.g. dextromethorphan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Peripheral antitussives<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Decrease the input of stimuli from the cough receptor in the respiratory passage.<br>e.g: Demulcents e.g. liquorices lozenges, honey<br>Local anesthetics e.g. lidocaine aerosol<br><br><strong>Demulcents<\/strong> coat the irritated pharyngeal mucosa and exert a mild analgesic effect locally.<br><strong>CODEINE<\/strong><br>Codeine is a narcotic relatively less addicting drug and central antitussive agen and it\u2019s main<br>side effects are dryness of mouth, constipation and dependence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>DEXTROMETROPHAN<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dextromethorphan is an opoid synthetic antitussive, essentially free of analgesic and addictive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>properties and the main side effects are respiratory depression<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Expectoran<\/strong>t is a drug that aid in removing thick tenacious mucus from respiratory passages,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>e.g. Ipecac alkaloid, sodium citrate, saline expectorant, guanfenesin, potassium salts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mucolytics<\/strong> are agents that liquefy mucus and facilitate expectoration, e.g.acetylcysteine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cough is a protective reflex, which serves the purpose of expelling sputum and other irritantmaterials from the respiratory airway.Types:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[693],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drugs-action-on-the-respiratory-system"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2779928.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6594,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions\/6594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}