Designed to combat the common cough medications in reality do not help to get rid of it – is shown by the study conducted by researchers from Basel University in Switzerland. The researchers found that on cough medicines pharmacy act no better than a placebo.
Experts from Basel carried out an experiment comparing the effectiveness of seven of the most commonly used drugs to combat cough. As a result, they concluded that the symptoms of this disorder are equally valid all products, including pacifiers.
Doctors repeatedly said that the cough does not require emergency medical care, but subacute cough is statistically the most frequent cause of treatment to the doctors. If patients do not detect serious reasons for coughing, it is usually recommended various ways and means for its treatment, including syrups and tablets.
But, although the range of such funds every year becomes more and more, they do not work, say the authors of a new study.
“Subacute cough often leads patients to doctors, but medicine still does not possess any means of treatment. Common cough medicine in reality do not help to get rid of this symptom,” said the experts.
Subacute cough is called a moderate infection of the respiratory tract, its average duration is from three to eight weeks. To the alarm of experts is the fact that because of subacute cough, pushing for visits to doctors, patients often receive prescriptions for antibiotics.
Earlier Magicforum wrote about why not to use the cough drops.