Actifed dry coughs

How can this medicine affect other medicines?

If you are taking any other medicines, including those bought without a prescription and herbal medicines, you should check with your doctor or pharmacist before taking this medicine, to ensure that the combination is safe.

You should not take this medicine if you are currently taking a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant (eg phenelzine, isocarboxazid, tranylcypromine or moclobemide), or if you have taken one of these medicines in the last 14 days.

There may be an increased risk of drowsiness if this medicine is taken in combination with any of the following, which can also cause drowsiness:

alcohol

benzodiazepines, eg temazepam, diazepam

sedating antihistamines, eg chlorphenamine, hydroxyzine, diphenhydramine, promethazine (these are often found in other non-prescription cough and cold or hayfever remedies)

sleeping tablets, eg zopiclone

strong opioid painkillers, eg codeine, dihydrocodeine, morphine

tricyclic antidepressants, eg amitriptyline.

If you are taking any of these you should avoid taking this medicine as well.

If pseudoephedrine is taken with any of the following, the combination may cause an increase in blood pressure:

other decongestants

tricyclic antidepressants, eg amitriptyline

appetite suppressants

amphetamine-like stimulants.

Pseudoephedrine may reduce the effects of medicines to treat high blood pressure (antihypertensives). If you are taking medicines for high blood pressure you should not take this medicine.

Other medicines containing the same active ingredients

There are currently no other medicines available in the UK that contain this combination of active ingredients.

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