what is cold medicine
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Overview and Guide to Cold Medicines Cold medicine can be a help and a hindrance in our lives when we are sick. Though it won't cure your cold or flu, it can improve your symptoms. But it also can have side effects.
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- cold′ tur′key. 1. abrupt and complete withdrawal from the use of an addictive substance, esp. a narcotic drug or nicotine. 2. abruptly and completely: to withdraw cold turkey from a drug. 3. without preparation; impromptu.
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Cold guide Over-the-counter cold medications. The main medications used to treat cold symptoms are: painkillers – such as paracetamol and ibuprofen, which can help relieve aches and a high temperature (fever) decongestants – which may help relieve a blocked nose.
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Popular Cough Drugs Tylenol Cold Daytime, Mapap Cold. ACETAMINOPHEN; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; PHENYLEPHRINE is a combination of pain reliever, a cough suppressant, and a decongestant. It is used to treat the aches and pains, cough, and congestion of a cold. This medicine will not treat an infection. Compare acetaminophen combinations.
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Advil Cold & Sinus This product is a combination of 2 medications: ibuprofen and pseudoephedrine. Ibuprofen is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that reduces pain, fever, and inflammation by reducing a substance in the body that leads to inflammation and pain. Pseudoephedrine is a decongestant that relieves the symptoms of nasal and sinus congestion by shrinking swollen nasal passages and sinuses. This medication is used to relieve nasal congestion, sinus congestion, sinus pain, fever, headache, sore throat, and body aches and pains that are associated with the common cold, sinusitis, or the flu.
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Common cold Common cold. The common cold, also known simply as a cold, is a viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract that primarily affects the nose. The throat, sinuses, and voice box may also be affected. Signs and symptoms may begin less than two days following exposure.
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Cryotherapy Ice pack therapy. Ice pack therapy is a treatment of cold temperatures to an injured area of the body. An ice pack is placed over an injured area and is intended to absorb heat of a closed traumatic or edematous injury by using conduction to transfer thermal energy.
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The Cold-Medicine Racket There's a decongestant (usually phenylephrine), a cough suppressant (usually dextromethorphan), a pain/fever reducer (usually acetaminophen), plus or minus an expectorant (usually guaifenesin), and something that will put you to sleep (usually diphenhydramine).
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Robitussin Cold and Cough The combination of dextromethorphan, guaifenesin, and pseudoephedrine is used to treat stuffy nose, sinus congestion, cough, and chest congestion caused by the common cold or flu. Dextromethorphan will not treat a cough that is caused by smoking, asthma, or emphysema.
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- Cold medicines (decongestants) Decongestants narrow your blood vessels, which makes it harder for your blood to flow through them, increasing blood pressure. Decongestants may also make some blood pressure medications less effective. Examples of decongestants include:
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Cold, Flu, & Cough Health Center It's important to know the difference between flu and cold symptoms. A cold is a milder respiratory illness than the flu. While cold symptoms can make you feel bad for a few days, flu symptoms can make you feel quite ill for a few days to weeks.se over-the-counter cold medications to relieve symptoms including sore throat, runny nose, congestion, and cough. Flu symptoms are similar, but include fever, headache and muscle soreness.
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Cold guide The combination cold and cough medicine may contain an antihistamine, a decongestant, and a pain reliever in addition to the cough suppressant and/or expectorant. The combination of medicines may give optimal relief if you have multiple cold symptoms, such as sore throat, cough, and congestion.he combination cold and cough medicine may contain an antihistamine, a decongestant, and a pain reliever in addition to the cough suppressant and/or expectorant. The combination of medicines may give optimal relief if you have multiple cold symptoms, such as sore throat, cough, and congestion.
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Herbal medicine Herbal medicine -- also called botanical medicine or phytomedicine -- refers to using a plant's seeds, berries, roots, leaves, bark, or flowers for medicinal purposes.
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Top 30 Doctor insights on: Long Term Decongestant Use Phenylephrine (Definition) 1  Phenylephrine hydrochloride is a decongestant which is a kind of antihistamine type drug (common cold or symptom drug). 2  Pseudoephedrine is a decongestant which is a kind of antihistamine type drug (common cold or symptom drug). 3  Decongestants are a kind of common cold or symptom drug.
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Cold-EeZe â Reduce Your Cold Duration Cold-Eeze is a lozenge that claims to be a clinically proven way to shorten your cold. The lozenges primarily use zinc to reduce cold, flu, and cough symptoms. Popular Cold-Eeze products include Zinc Cold Shortening, Zinc Cold Shortening PLUS, Cold & Flu Symptom Relief, Children’s Symptom Relief, and Natural Energy Relief.
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ColdLasers.Org Cold laser therapy is a relatively new technology compared to many alternative therapies like acupuncture (which has been used since 8000-3500 B.C.), chiropractic (since 1895) and physical therapy. Just like the abacus evolved into the computer, many alternative medicine practices are evolving to include laser therapy.
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Heat and cold treatment: Which is best? Heat therapy is usually more effective than cold at treating chronic muscle pain or sore joints caused by arthritis. In fact, some clinical studies have found that continuous low-level heat wrap therapy (CLHT) can help lessen muscle and joint pain better than oral analgesics, acetaminophen and ibuprofen. Effective ways of heat therapy, include: 1  Applying a heating pad. 2  Applying a heat wrap. 3  Soaking the sore area in a hot bath.
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Popular Cough Drugs GUAIFENESIN is an expectorant. It helps to thin mucous and make coughs more productive. This medicine is used to treat coughs caused by colds or the flu. It is not intended to treat chronic cough caused by smoking, asthma, emphysema, or heart failure.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Common Cold Alcohol is a good remedy for treating a cold or flu. Chicken soup is a good remedy for treating a cold or flu. Flu shots can cause flu infection. Feed a cold starve a fever. Antibiotics can cure a cold or the flu. Cold weather causes a cold or the flu.
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ASK THE DOCTOR The final major category of agents used to treat symptoms of the common cold is the expectorants. These medications loosen respiratory tract secretions and make coughs more productive. The most common active ingredient in this category is guaifenesin--which has no effect on blood sugar control.
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- The first of these is a more broad-based formula and also contains herbs to improve the body's immune function once the cold symptoms have abated. The second contains several herbs whose properties and functions are quite cold and is therefore more suited for wind-heat phase symptoms.
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- Medical Definition of Chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD) Chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD): Any disorder that persistently obstructs bronchial airflow. COLD mainly involves two related diseases -- chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Both cause chronic obstruction of air flowing through the airways and in and out of the lungs.
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Multi-Symptom Cold and Flu Medications If you have congestion, fever, itching or sneezing and a cough, Tylenol Cold Multi Symptom Nighttime may be right for you. 3 Aleve Cold and Sinus. Aleve Cold and Sinus is a cold and flu medication that treats nasal congestion and pain/fever for 12 hours. It is now available behind the pharmacy counter, without a prescription, because of recent changes to the law regarding the sale of pseudoephedrine.
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Essential Oils: Natural Cold Remedies Tea tree essential oil (Melaleuca alternifolia) is one of the most effective anti-viral oils, which makes it one of the best cold and flu remedies in aromatherapy. A warm bath with tea tree oil, taken when the first symptoms appear, can sometimes ward off the cold or at least reduce its length.
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Promethazine and Codeine Bromfed DM Cough Syrup is indicated for relief of cough and upper respiratory symptoms, including nasal congestion, associated with allergy or the common cold.ids get as many as 10 colds per year on average, and colds are most common in children under the age of 6. 2,3. Over-the-counter cough, cold, and allergy products are labeled Do Not Use in children under the age of 4 and, for some products, under the age of 6. 4.
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- Bromfed DM is the ONLY FDA-approved, non-narcotic prescription product containing pseudoephedrine that is indicated for relief of cough and upper respiratory symptoms associated with allergy or the common cold.5.ids get as many as 10 colds per year on average, and colds are most common in children under the age of 6. 2,3. Over-the-counter cough, cold, and allergy products are labeled Do Not Use in children under the age of 4 and, for some products, under the age of 6. 4.