DPC COUGH SYRUP 100 ML

Take it as directed by your doctor or the label, using the measuring cup provided (not a household spoon). Adult doses are typically taken every 6–8 hours; children's doses are lower and based on age. It can be taken with or without food.

Yes — the chlorpheniramine commonly causes drowsiness. Avoid driving or operating machinery until you know how it affects you, and avoid alcohol and other sedating medicines, which increase drowsiness.

It combines a cough suppressant with a mucolytic, so it is used for cough associated with colds. However, for a very productive (heavily phlegmy) chest cough, suppressing the cough may not be ideal — check with your pharmacist or doctor about which cough medicine suits your symptoms.

Tell your doctor if you have asthma or breathing problems, glaucoma, an enlarged prostate/difficulty urinating, liver or kidney problems, or if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. It should be used cautiously in young children and the elderly, and avoided with MAO-inhibitor antidepressants.

Use it only for short-term relief. If the cough lasts more than about a week, keeps returning, or comes with high fever, rash, persistent headache, breathlessness, or blood in the phlegm, stop and see a doctor.