Dimetapp Paediatric Elixir is contra-indicated in patients sensitive to any of the ingredients and in infants or neonates. It should not be given to patients whose sensitivity to small doses of sympathomimetic substances is manifested by sleeplessness, dizziness, light headaches, weakness, tremulousness or cardiac arrhythmia.
In fact, worrying (or anxiety) can stimulate the release of epinephrine into your system, whereby it will bind with your beta-adrenergic receptors in your liver, causing your blood vessels to constrict and your blood pressure to rise, along with your heart rate (pulse).
1 Steroids pass into a cell's nucleus, bind to specific receptors and genes and trigger the cell to make proteins. 2  Amino acid derivatives, such as epinephrine, are water-soluble molecules derived from amino acids (the building blocks of protein). 3  These hormones are stored in endocrine cells until needed.