According to statistics from healthcare institutions in 2010, about 80 percent of all ailments are ENT and respiratory tract diseases, flu, and acute respiratory infections. Moreover, children on average once a month suffer diseases of the upper respiratory tract and less often - diseases of the lower respiratory tract. But the latter cause more serious complications. In such cases, take medication with anti-bronchoconstrictive and anti-inflammatory activity "Erespal" (syrup).
Instructions for use
For children often suffering from laryngitis, rhinopharyngitis, tracheobronchitis, ARI, otitis media, sinusitis and suffering from bronchial asthma, experts recommend the drug "Erespal". Although mothers speak about him differently, based on their own experience.
How useful is Erespal syrup for children? The price of this drug is rather big (from 300 rubles), so let's see if it is worth buying this drug. The instructions indicate that you can not take this medicine:
- in tablets for children under 18 years of age;
- in syrup for babies up to 2 years old;
- diabetics;
- children with individual intolerance to the components of this medicine;
- children with glucose malabsorption syndrome , fructose intolerance or sucrose deficiency;
- pregnant and lactating mothers.
Please note that you can not take the drug with medications that have a sedative effect.
What is included in Erespal (syrup)?
Instructions for use (for children under 18 years of age, only syrup is prescribed) states that the bright orange liquid is available in 150 ml dark plastic bottles in a cardboard box along with the instruction. This medicine is very sweet, even cloying, which causes a protective cough, so immediately drink it with water.
The active substance of this drug is fenspiride hydrochloride. But it also includes other auxiliary components: a flavor with a honey tint, vanilla tincture, yellow dye, licorice root extract, glycerol, sucrose, potassium sorbate, saccharin, purified water, propyl parahydroxybenzoate, methyl parahydroxybenzoate.
Despite the fact that fenspiride hydrochloride copes with the elimination and reduction of sputum in the body, it transforms a dry cough into a wet one, the presence of propyl and methyl parahydroxybenzoate with prolonged treatment can cause allergies. Therefore, many mothers with children undergo tests with an allergist-immunologist on the tolerance of the drug in order to avoid side effects during treatment.
How to take "Erespal" (syrup)?
The medicine must be shaken before taking, as it can form a precipitate. Give children a day no more than 3 times in a measuring spoon. The dosage is determined by the doctor, which takes into account the tendency to allergies, intolerance to drugs, congenital pathologies, the severity of the disease, the age and weight of the child.
Please note that this drug requires special care when dosing, since it is absorbed quite quickly (on average after 2 hours), and is excreted only after 12 hours with urine. Therefore, we give only the dosages recommended in the instructions for taking the Erespal medication (syrup).
Instructions for use:
- for children weighing less than ten kilograms, not more than 2-4 teaspoons per day;
- two-year-olds, whose weight is more than 10 kg, - 2-4 tablespoons per day;
- adolescents - no more than 3-6 tbsp. l per day.
A teaspoon means a volume of 5 ml, and a tablespoon - 15 ml. The use of the drug more than 2320 mg leads to an overdose (vomiting, drowsiness, tachycardia, nausea), therefore it is important to rinse the stomach as soon as possible, make an ECG and be observed by a doctor.
Thus, each parent with childhood diseases of the respiratory tract, including against the background of influenza, measles, with sinusitis, whooping cough, otitis media, sore throat, cough, should pay special attention to the drug Erespal (syrup). Instructions for use (for children with laryngitis, tracheobronchitis, laryngotracheitis) are especially important at the initial stage, it should be carefully studied. As you can see, this remedy is strong, quite effective and causing serious consequences, so consult with your doctor about the purpose of this drug for your child.