The drugs used to treat incessant coughing include central cough suppressants, peripheral cough suppressants, and some combination drugs.
1. Central cough suppressant: central cough suppressant is through the inhibition of medullary cough center to play the role of cough suppressant, clinically commonly used codeine, dextromethorphan, pentoxyverine, etc., of which codeine can be used for severe dry cough and irritating cough, dextromethorphan is suitable for upper respiratory tract infections caused by cough, pentoxyverine can be used for whooping cough, upper respiratory tract infections caused by no sputum, such as a dry cough.
2. Peripheral cough suppressants: commonly used peripheral cough suppressants are benadryl and nacodin, benadryl is suitable for bronchitis and severe cough caused by various stimuli, and nacodin can be used for spasmodic cough and allergic cough.
3. Compound preparations: some compound preparations can also treat non-stop cough, such as compound methoxonamine, can be used for phlegm cough patients.
Many drugs for cough can play a symptomatic treatment effect, but individuals must not abuse cough suppressant, must be in the clear cough cause of the conditions of compliance with the doctor’s instructions standardized use of drugs.