Top 20 drugs with the same components:
Contraindications
Patients receiving MAOIs or w/in 14 days of its termination. Coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, severe HTN, combination w/ other sympathomimetics
Undesirable effects
Tremor, headache, tonic muscle cramps & palpitations; urticaria, exanthema; sleep & behavioral disturbances.
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.
Relief of bronchospasm in bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, acute dyspnea & other bronchopulmonary diseases where bronchoconstriction is a complicating factor eg preterm labor
Name of the medicinal product
Sulfato de Terbutalina + Guaifenesina
Dosage (Posology) and method of administration
Adult 2-3 tsp. Childn >6 yr 1-2 tsp, 3-6 yr ½-1 tsp, <3 yr ½ tsp. To be taken tid.
Interaction with other medicinal products and other forms of interaction
Reduced effect w/ β-blockers (including eye drops). May potentiate hypokalemia w/ xanthine derivatives, steroids & diuretics.
