Spect Cold Syrup

Spect Cold Syrup is a medicine used to treat common cold symptoms. It helps relieve symptoms like runny nose, watery eyes, and sneezing by thinning and loosening the phlegm and making it easier to cough out.

Spect Cold Syrup can be taken with or without food. Take it in the dose and duration as prescribed by your doctor. You should keep taking the medicine even if you feel better until the doctor says it is alright to stop using it.

Using of this medicine may cause few common side effects such as allergic reactions and sleepiness in some people. If you experience any such side effects that does not go away or get worse, you should let your doctor know. Your doctor may be able to suggest ways of preventing or reducing the symptoms.

Before using the medicine, you should tell your doctor if you have any other medical conditions or disorders. It may also affect, or be affected by, some other medicines you are using so let your doctor know all the other medicines you are taking. It should be used with caution in patients who are alcoholic or have liver or kidney disease. Pregnant and breastfeeding women should consult their doctors first before using the medicine.

• Treatment of Common cold

Treatment of Common cold
Spect Cold Syrup effectively relieves symptoms of common cold such as blocked nose, runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing, and congestion or stuffiness. It helps to loosen thick mucus, making it easier to cough out. This helps reduce congestion as well as gives relief from continuous cough. Spect Cold Syrup also gives relief from pain and fever that comes with a cold. It usually starts to work within a few minutes and the effects can last up to several hours. To ease the symptoms of common cold drink luke warm water and gargle with warm salt water.

Most side effects do not require any medical attention and disappear as your body adjusts to the medicine. Consult your doctor if they persist or if you’re worried about them

Common side effects of Spect Cold

• Allergic reaction
• Sleepiness

Take this medicine in the dose and duration as advised by your doctor. Check the label for directions before use. Measure it with a measuring cup and take it by mouth. Shake well before use. Spect Cold Syrup may be taken with or without food, but it is better to take it at a fixed time.

Spect Cold Syrup is a combination of three medicines: Paracetamol, chlorpheniramine and sodium citrate which relieve common cold symptoms. Paracetamol is an analgesic (pain reliever) and antipyretic (fever reducer). It blocks the release of certain chemical messengers in the brain that are responsible for pain and fever. Chlorpheniramine is an antiallergic which relieves allergy symptoms like runny nose, watery eyes and sneezing. Sodium citrate is a mucolytic which thins and loosens mucus (phlegm), making it easier to cough out.

• Spect Cold Syrup is prescribed to get relief from symptoms of common cold.

• Take exactly as directed by your doctor or on the label. Do not increase the dosage or take for longer than is recommended.

• Call your doctor if your symptoms have not improved within seven days of treatment.

• Inform your doctor if you are taking any other medications for cold.

• Along with taking Spect Cold Syrup do the following simple tips at home to get relief:

  1. Steam inhalation.
  2. Gargling with warm saltwater.
  3. Apply vapor rubs on chest, back if needed. Take enough rest.
  4. Take warm food and fluid only. Ensure adequate fluid intake.
  5. Advise hygiene measures to reduce spread: frequent hand-washing, avoiding sharing towels, pillowcases, etc.

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