Licorice mixture oral liquid

Compound licorice mixture oral liquid is mainly made of licorice, has a sweet smell, and appears as a brown or brown-black liquid. This medicine is mainly used to treat upper respiratory tract infections, bronchitis, and coughs caused by colds. Although the efficacy of licorice mixture oral liquid is relatively good, it should be noted when using it. If the symptoms are relieved every day after taking it for a week, you should stop taking the medicine and ask your doctor for advice.

First, avoid cephalexin. If cephalosporin is taken at the same time, it may inhibit the activity of the above-mentioned metabolic enzymes, causing acetaldehyde to be unable to be metabolized normally and accumulate in the body, leading to acetaldehyde poisoning and disulfiram reaction. Patients often experience symptoms such as facial flushing, headache, dizziness, abdominal pain, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, and shortness of breath. In addition to cephalosporin antibiotics, metronidazole and others can also affect alcohol metabolism. While taking these medicines, you should also avoid drinking alcohol and use medicines containing alcohol such as Huoxiang Zhengqi Water with caution.

Second, the elderly should pay more attention. The organs of the elderly metabolize slowly and their tolerance to such drugs is poor. Also, due to differences in living environment and physical constitution, there are large individual differences in drug dosage and low tolerance. Therefore, the elderly are more likely to experience adverse reactions when using this type of drug. For example, the ammonia component in the compound licorice mixture is weakly alkaline, which may irritate the gastric mucosa of the body, causing reflex contraction of the gastric mucosa and leading to gastric spasm. These all need to alert the elderly.

In addition, the elderly often suffer from chronic diseases such as diabetes and need to take multiple medications at the same time. Once you have a cold, cough, etc., you will have more types of medicine to take. For example, the ethanol contained in compound licorice oral solution may act synergistically with insulin, posing a risk of hypoglycemia. Therefore, it is recommended that the elderly tell their doctors about all the medications they are taking when seeing a doctor, and try to avoid prescribing drugs that may interact with each other. When taking multiple types of medications, it is best not to take health supplements at the same time to avoid increasing the risk of interactions.

Third, hypertensive patients should monitor their blood pressure while taking medication. Patients with hypertension should pay attention to monitoring their blood pressure while taking this product. Compound licorice oral solution contains ingredients such as licorice fluid extract, which has the effect of water and sodium retention. In layman's terms, it retains too much sodium in the body, which may increase blood pressure. And this effect may also reduce the effectiveness of diuretics, which are commonly used by patients with high blood pressure. Therefore, while using this drug as prescribed by a doctor, patients with hypertension should pay attention to monitoring their blood pressure and stop taking the drug and seek medical attention in time if any abnormal conditions occur.

Fourth, do not take it with strong cough suppressants. Compound licorice oral solution contains strong antitussive ingredients such as opium tincture. It should be avoided to be taken together with other strong antitussive drugs such as Lingbei cough syrup and Maqin cough syrup, so as to avoid the dangerous effect of drug duplication. In addition, strong antitussive drugs should be used with caution when there is a lot of phlegm. This is because coughing is a defensive reflex for expectoration. Forcibly suppressing it will cause phlegm to remain, which can easily block the respiratory tract, aggravate the infection, and even cause suffocation, which is harmful rather than beneficial.