Cough Medicine: Pharmacists’ Recommendations – World Report

HEALTH: Cough is a protective reflex, its purpose being expulsion of respiratory secretions of foreign particles from air passages. It occurs due to stimulation of mechano-or chemoreceptors in throat, respiratory passages or stretch receptors in the lungs. Cough may be useful or useless. Useless (nonproductive/Dry) cough should be suppressed. Useful (productive/Wet) cough serves to drain […]