Benzonatate
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Benzonatate. Benzonatate works by numbing the throat and lungs making the cough reflex less active. It is recommended for cough relief in the common cold bronchitis pneumonia and for chronic cough such as in asthma. Keep benzonatate away from children. If a child takes benzonatate on accident get medical help right away.
Benzonatate sold under the brand name tessalon among others is a medication used to try to help with the symptoms of cough and hiccups. How to use benzonatate. Effects generally begin within 20 minutes and last up to eight hours. Benzonatate is a non narcotic cough medicine that numbs the throat and lungs making the cough reflex less active.
Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any part you do not understand. It works to reduce the activity of cough reflex by desensitizing the tissues of the lungs and pleura involved in the cough reflex. Use is not recommended in those under the age of ten. Benzonatate is used to relieve coughing.
Benzonatate comes as a liquid filled capsule and a capsule to take by mouth. Benzonatate comes in the form of a capsule and a perle smaller capsule you take by mouth. Benzonatate is a synthetic butylamino benzoate derivative related to tetracaine and a peripherally acting antitussive nonnarcotic benzonatate reduces the cough reflex by anesthetizing and depressing mechanoreceptors in the respiratory passages lungs and pleura. Benzonatate is an oral antitussive drug used in the relief and suppression of cough in patients older than ten years of age.
It is taken by mouth. Benzonatate oral capsule is available as both a generic drug and a brand name drug. Currently benzonatate is the only non narcotic antitussive available as a prescription drug. It is the stretching of these sensors with breathing that causes the cough.
Take this medication by mouth with or without food usually 3 times daily as needed or as directed by your doctor. Benzonatate is a medication taken orally to suppress coughs. Accidental overdose and death have happened in children younger than 10 years old who took benzonatate on accident. Benzonatate is used to relieve coughing.
Swallow this medication whole. Benzonatate is a non narcotic cough medicine.