Dextromethorphan

According to Drugs.com (2016), Dextromethorphan is a cough suppressant, and it affects the signals in the brain that cause/trigger cough reflex. Dextromethorphan should not be taken with alcohol it is extremely dangerous and can have life threatening side effects. Taking diet pills, caffeine pills and other stimulants can clash with dextromethorphan. The side effects of dextromethorphan are severe dizziness, anxiety, restlessness, confusion, and shallow breathing. A number of drugs could potentially clash with dextromethorphan such as celecoxib, darinfenancin, quinidine, ritonavir, sibutramine, and many antidepressants such as Zoloft (p.1). According to DrugBank (2016), is an approved drug has high affinity binding to many regions of the brain,…

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Walking into Walgreens in order to find some kind of cough drop to treat my sore throat is the kind of things that I do not want to do while feeling sick. I stood there and looked at various of different packages that is placed on the shelves and hesitated with what kind of cough drops to buy. Then one package that popped up among other packages which was a yellow “HALLS” menthol cough drop bag. I read quickly over the descriptions and decided to take that bag and head over to the check out with…

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should not be used for persistent or chronic cough related to pneumonia, asthma, smoking, or patients with copious respiratory secretions because they weaken the body’s ability to clear the airway. (Woo & Wynne, 2012, p.348). Dextromethorphan, codeine, and benzonatate are antitussives that work through a poorly understood process in which cough is either centrally or peripherally suppressed (Woo & Wynn, 2012, p.348). Dextromethorphan is absorbed well in the GI tract and acts centrally to…

Two chromatographic methods were developed for the assay of the FDA approved lozenges containing dextromethorphan hydrobromide (DXT) and menthol (MNT). The first was a green HPTLC method which depends on using Merck HPTLC aluminum sheets of silica gel 60 F254 and methanol-ammonia (10:0.1, v/v) as mobile phase. This was followed by densitometric measurements of the spots which were retained at 0.28 ± 0.01 for DXT and 0.76 ± 0.02 for MNT scanned at 210 nm. The method was found linear over the…

from respiratory failure in children treated with codeine after tonsillectomies establish that it is a potentially dangerous medication. Codeine is used to treat a persistent cough, mild-to-moderate pain, tension headache, and diarrhea. It is available as a stand-alone product and in combination with other medications, including acetaminophen. Therefore, excessive use is dangerous due to both the codeine and acetaminophen. Abuse of codeine cough syrups is a growing problem. An eight-ounce bottle…

DMX can be taken by mouth. The users must take large amounts of the over-the-counter medicine, where it is found. iii. The neurotransmitters that are affected is an antagonist acetylcholine, serotonin, and norepinephrine. iv. The effects of the dextromethorphan (DMX) feel like a dreamlike dissociative state that includes: sensory and time perception, hallucinations, and excitement to the drug user. v. Users can suffer serious long-term consequences of excessive exposure to acetaminophen,…

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