Adult meltus dry coughs with congestion

How can this medicine affect other medicines?

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

This medicine should not be used by people who are currently taking a monoamine oxidase inhibitor antidepressant, eg phenelzine, tranylcypromine, isocarboxazid or moclobemide, or who have taken one of these medicines in the last 14 days. This is because the combination of pseudoephedrine with these medicines could cause a dangerous rise in blood pressure (hypertensive crisis).

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

- other decongestants (often found in non-prescription cough and cold remedies)
- 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

Junior meltus dry coughs with congestion

Sudafed linctus

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