Description
A mix of three medicines—chlorpheniramine maleate, paracetamol, and phenylephrine HCL—helps relieve the symptoms of a common cold. In doctors’ offices, medicines like paracetamol (PAR), phenylephrine hydrochloride (PHE), and chlorpheniramine maleate (CPM) are often used to help with pain and fever when someone has the flu or a cold.
Chlorpheniramine is a medicine that helps with allergies. It can relieve a runny nose, watery eyes, and sneezing. Paracetamol is both a pain reliever and a fever reducer. It stops the brain from sending out certain chemicals that make you feel pain and have a fever. Phenylephrine is a nasal decongestant that helps reduce stuffy noses by narrowing the small blood vessels in the nose.
How to Use
- Shake the bottle well before using it to mix everything.
- To get the right amount, use the measuring tool that comes with the liquid medicine. Don’t use any regular spoon here.
- Take the liquid medicine by mouth, just like your doctor said or as shown on the container.
- Follow your doctor’s instructions and mix the liquid with water or juice if needed before giving it.
- Follow your doctor’s instructions and take the liquid medicine with or without food.
- Don’t take more medicine than what your doctor recommends or take it more often than told.
- Make sure to give the right amount of medicine for children that your doctor tells you if you are giving this drug to a kid.
- Store the suspension in a cool and dry place, away from sunlight, and keep it out of children’s reach.
Benefits
Some of the advantages of this medicine are:
Pain relief: Paracetamol is a medicine that helps lower fever and ease mild to moderate pain.
Nasal decongestion: Phenylephrine HCl is a medicine that helps clear a stuffy nose by shrinking the blood vessels in the nose.
Antihistamine: Chlorpheniramine Maleate is a medicine that helps with sneezing, a runny nose, and itchy or watery eyes.
Combination therapy: This medicine has three active ingredients that work together to help with different symptoms. It is an easy and effective treatment choice.
Side Effects
- Feeling sick to your stomach.
- Head pain
- Insomnia
- Feeling lightheaded or unsteady.
- Tachycardia
- Heart racing
- Fear
- Worry or nervousness.
- Feeling restless
- Shaking or small earthquakes.
- Weakness
- Pain or trouble when peeing
- Seeing or hearing things
- Seizure
Safety Measures
- Chlorpheniramine maleate, paracetamol, and phenylephrine work together to help reduce fever, headache, sore throat, runny nose, and muscle pain caused by the common cold and flu.
- It could make you feel sleepy and lightheaded. Before you understand how driving or anything that needs your attention affects you, stay away from doing it.
- When you take this medicine, don’t drink alcohol because it might make you feel very sleepy.
- Before seeing your doctor, don’t take it with any other medicines that have paracetamol in them, like those for pain, fever, cough, or colds.
- Let your doctor know if you are breastfeeding, planning to get pregnant, or are currently pregnant.
