Codeine vs Dextromethorphan
 | Codeine |  | Dextromethorphan |  |
| Codeine Antitussive Cough Oral This combination product is used to treat symptoms caused by the common cold, flu, allergies, hay fever, or other breathing illnesses (e.g., sinusitis, bronchitis). Decongestants help relieve stuffy nose symptoms. This product also contains a narcotic cough suppressant (antitussive) that affects a certain part of the brain, reducing the urge to cough. Antihistamines relieve watery eyes, itchy eyes/nose/throat, runny nose, and sneezing. Cough-and-cold products have not been shown to be safe or effective in children younger than 6 years. Therefore, this product is not recommended to treat cold symptoms in children younger than 6 years. Some products (including some long-acting tablets/capsules) are not recommended for use in children younger than 12 years. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more details about using your product safely. These products do not cure or shorten the length of the common cold and may cause serious side effects. To decrease the risk for serious side effects, carefully follow all dosage directions. Giving more than the recommended dose or using this medication along with other cough-and-cold products has resulted in serious (even fatal) side effects, including slowed/stopped breathing. Talk to the doctor or pharmacist before giving other cough-and-cold medication that might contain the same or similar ingredients (see also Drug Interactions section). Ask about other ways to relieve cough and cold symptoms (such as drinking enough fluids, using a humidifier or saline nose drops/spray). Do not use this product to make a child sleepy. | This medication is used for temporary relief of coughs without phlegm that are caused by certain infections of the air passages (e.g., sinusitis, common cold). This product should not usually be used for an ongoing cough from smoking or long-term breathing problems (e.g., chronic bronchitis, emphysema) unless directed by your doctor. This product contains dextromethorphan. It is a cough suppressant that works by decreasing the feeling of needing to cough. Cough-and-cold products have not been shown to be safe or effective in children younger than 6 years. Therefore, do not use this product to treat cold symptoms in children younger than 6 years unless specifically directed by the doctor. Some products (such as long-acting tablets/capsules) are not recommended for use in children younger than 12 years. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more details about using your product safely. These products do not cure or shorten the length of the common cold and may cause serious side effects. To decrease the risk for serious side effects, carefully follow all dosage directions. Do not use this product to make a child sleepy. Do not give other cough-and-cold medication that might contain the same or similar ingredients (see also Drug Interactions section). Ask the doctor or pharmacist about other ways to relieve cough and cold symptoms (such as drinking enough fluids, using a humidifier or saline nose drops/spray). | |||
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| Add Codeine review Although the medicine controlled my cough and allowed me to sleep, I had vivid, horrible nightmares / hallucinations that I had a difficult time waking up from. Will never use again. makes my son go to sleep..w/o this he'll probably can't sleep because of continous coughing,a dry cough.sounds like crouppy. | Add Dextromethorphan review After two week of constant cough with phlegm on it,this drug work for me.dextromethorphan hbr 15mg tablet. The cough stop on the spot after I took it with a glass of water. Before that I've been taking difference kind of cough mixture and a week prescription of anti-biotics with no effect. What I regret most is my yearly vacation was effect with the cough. I shall bring along with it, but only discover it near my kitchen cabinet after I came back from malaysia Really let me sleep by numbing the tickle in my throat. Amazing drug, I gotta say, for the right tickly cough. Used Scot-Tussin DM (for diabetics/sugar-free)for coughing & itching of throat during a cold. Makes me sleep very soundly at night but have noticed the last 2 times that I took it, before it kicks in for the cough, that my throat closed up, leaving me gasping for breath during every cough. Scary! After I made it thru the coughing attack, it did stop itching in throat and control the cough & apparently sedated me enough to sleep. Because the throat closing was such a serious adverse action, it means I shouldn't take it again and will report to my Dr. It didn't occur to me the first times (have used several times) that it was the culprit in making my throat close up. I looked it up on the web this time and found that serious adverse side effect listed. A number of meds work opposite on me than most folks. Most of the ones that make other people drowsy, usually wire me. This one did not wire me, but made me drowsy which I wanted it to do (needed help with sleep), so now I don't know what can help me without this adverse effect. | |||
