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WET COUGH

A wet cough is one in which mucus builds up in the chest. If you have a wet cough, you may feel tightness in your chest and you may hear a wheezing sound when breathing. This mucus build up is difficult to get rid of by coughing.

  • Cold

  • Flu

  • Lung Infections

  • COPD

  • Acute Bronchitis

  • Postnasal drip

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Cough with Phlegm or Sputum

Gurgling or Rattling sound while Coughing

Breathlessness

Fever

Cold & Flu symptoms

Chest Pain

  • Mucolytics and Expectorants are used to treat wet or productive cough.

  • They are a group of medications that works by thinning and loosening and clearance of mucus in the airways, helping to clear chest congestion.

  • Common examples of Mucolytics and expectorants are Ambroxol and Guaiphenesin

Q: What is Wet Cough?

A: A wet cough is one in which mucus builds up in the chest.

Q: What are expectorants?

A: Expectorants are used to treat wet cough that help loosen mucus making it easier to expel from the body.

Q: What is Guaiphenesin?

A: Guaiphenesin is a common expectorant which thins the mucus making it easier to expel from the body.

Q: What are mucolytics?

A: Mucolytics are medications that break up mucus so you can clear it out of your lungs more easily

Q: What is Ambroxol?

A: Ambroxol is a mucolytic agent that breaks down the mucus to reduce its Viscosity

Q: Are Bronchodilators to be used for all cases of Wet Cough?

A: Bronchodilators are not recommended for all types of wet cough and may be used only when the wet cough is complicated by airway narrowing or in presence of wheeze.

BENADRYL® RELIEVE WET COUGH AND CHEST CONGESTION

  • For Cough with Phlegm

  • Relief from chest congestion

  • Thins, Loosens and Clears bronchial mucus 

  • Sugar Free 

  • Starts to work in 15 mins