What are lemsip capsules?

What are lemsip capsules?

Lemsip max cold & flu capsules contain three active ingredients, the painkiller paracetamol (500mg), a decongestant called phenylephrine (6.1mg) and caffeine (25mg). Paracetamol is thought to relieve pain by reducing the production of prostaglandins in the brain and spinal cord.

What does lemsip stand for?

LEMSIP

What is Lemsip Max capsules?

Lemsip Max All in One Cold & Flu Capsules contains a combination of active ingredients including paracetamol, phenylephrine and guaifenesin, to help provide relief from your blocked nose, headache, sore throat, chesty cough, fever, and general aches and pains.

What is the function of Lemsip?

What are Lemsip cold & flu sachets used for? Relieving the symptoms of colds and flu, such as headache, sore throat, aches and pains, fever and blocked nose or sinuses for adults aged 12 years and over.

Is paracetamol a Lemsip?

Lemsip and similar medicinal drink sachets, which contain paracetamol and phenylephrine hydrochloride to relieve the symptoms of coughs and colds, are a popular choice when looking for a remedy for this seasonal misery.

Is lemsip good for sinusitis?

The paracetamol in Lemsip max sinus sachets helps relieve aches, pains, sore throats and fever associated with colds and flu. Phenylephrine is a type of medicine called a decongestant. It works by acting on alpha receptors that are found in the walls of blood vessels in the linings of the nasal passages and sinuses.

Can I have Lemsip and decongestant?

Interactions between your drugs No interactions were found between Lemsip Max and pseudoephedrine.

Does lemsip clear mucus?

Guaifenesin helps to thin and loosen the mucus in the airways, making it easier to cough up. Phenylephrine relieves a blocked nose by causing the blood vessels in the linings of the nasal passages and sinuses to contract and narrow.

Is Lemsip good for chest infection?

Lemsip cough max is used for relieving the symptoms of colds and flu, including chesty coughs, blocked nose and sinuses, sinus pain, fever, headache, aches and pains and sore throats.

Is Lemsip good for cough?

Lemsip also does Cough! Whether it’s a dry tickly cough, chesty cough or a mucus cough, Lemsip has a remedy to help relieve the symptoms. There is nothing stronger without prescription for your chesty cough*. Each 5ml dose contains 50mg Guaifenesin for symptomatic relief.

What are the side effects of LEMSIP?

Lemsip’s other active ingredient, phenylephrine hydrochloride, is what is known as a vasoconstrictor – a drug that narrows blood vessels and is associated with higher risk of hypertension (high blood pressure). Other potential side effects, according to the information leaflet, include headache, vomiting and palpitations.

What is the active ingredient in Lemsip and how does it work?

Lemsip’s other active ingredient, phenylephrine hydrochloride, is what is known as a vasoconstrictor – a drug that narrows blood vessels and is associated with higher risk of hypertension (high blood pressure).

Does Lemsip Max Cold & Flu Capsules work?

While not strictly an NSAID, the paracetamol in Lemsip Max Cold & Flu Capsules also relieves pain and lowers fever. The catch, according to a recent study in Nature Immunology, is that mild fevers actually disrupt the ability of viruses that thrive at body temperature to multiply.

What is a patient information leaflet?

A Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) is the leaflet containing information on taking or using a medicine for patients, included with medicine packaging. It is written by pharmaceutical companies as a patient version of the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC).