If your baby falls ill and begins to cough, you should always call a doctor so that he examines the throat, listens to the baby's lungs and prescribes treatment. There are a lot of cough medicines. Depending on the type of cough the doctor can prescribe to your little patient syrup ambroben. This drug is a new generation, which has a good secretolytic, mucolytic and secretory-motor action. The solution has a pleasant crimson taste and is easily drunk by a child. This drug perfectly reduces the viscosity of phlegm and removes it from the respiratory tract. The syrup quickly enters the blood, the effect lasts 6-12 hours. Then the syrup of the ambroben is completely removed from the gastrointestinal tract. The medicine is produced in dark glass bottles of 100 ml each.
Ambrobene composition for children
Ambrobene solution for children contains active substance ambroxol hydrochloride, as well as auxiliary substances: potassium sorbate, hydrochloric acid and purified water.
Ambroben is used for children in the form of tablets, syrup for ingestion and as a solution for inhalation in such diseases as:
- pneumonia;
- bronchitis;
- bronchial asthma;
- laryngitis;
- tracheitis.
Dosage ambrogen for children
Usually syrup ambroben is used inside 30 minutes after eating, it is washed down with enough water or tea.
Assign syrup to children up to 2 years of 2.5 ml 2 times a day, children from 2 years to 6 years take 2.5 ml of syrup 3 times a day, children from 6 to 12 years old take 5 ml 2-3 times per day, and adolescents in the first 2 days take 4 ml of the solution 3 times a day, and then 4 ml of the solution 2 times a day.
For inhalations for children, the ambroben solution is mixed with sodium chloride solution and heated to body temperature. Inhalations with an amberbone for children up to a year do necessarily under the control of doctors. During the treatment of the baby, it is necessary to drink plenty of water.
Ambrogen tablets are contraindicated for children under 6 years. From this age, the tablets can be given according to the dosage indicated in the annotation to the drug. Be sure to observe these requirements, since an overdose is very dangerous for children of any age.
Overdose
In case of an overdose, the following symptoms occur in children with ambriform:
- severe nausea;
- vomiting;
- increased salivation;
- lowering of blood pressure.
Treatment with an overdose should be gastric lavage.
Side effects and contraindications
When using the ambroben may sometimes be a headache, weakness, dry mouth, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea. Very rarely there may be allergic reactions, such as a skin rash, face swelling, fever. If any side effects occur, the drug should be discarded. You can not combine the reception of the ambroben with medications that suppress the cough, as against the background of a decrease in cough, it will be difficult for the sputum to escape from the respiratory tract. When the ambrobene solution for children is prescribed simultaneously with antibiotics, the latter gets better in the pulmonary ways and, thereby, their effect is enhanced.
Contraindications to the use of syrup ambroben for children are:
- hypersensitivity to constituents;
- an ulcer of the stomach or duodenum;
- epilepsy;
- severe kidney and liver disease.
Ambrobene syrup is widely used in pediatric practice due to its effectiveness, but parents should remember that children should be taken strictly under the supervision of a doctor in order to avoid possible complications that usually develop very quickly in a child's body.