Bucod SR

Indications of Bucod SR Tablet

Butamirate Citrate is utilized to calm dry (non-productive) hack. Dry hack may be caused by a later viral contamination. Butamirate Citrate is additionally utilized for pre & post-operative hack sedation in patients who will experience surgical strategies and bronchoscopy. It can be utilized within the intense hack of any etiology, whooping hack and hack due to intense lower respiratory tract contaminations (tracheitis, laryngitis, bronchitis) etc.

 

Pharmacology of Bucod SR Tablet

Butamirate Citrate acts straightforwardly on the brain's hack center to stifle hack. Butamirate Citrate is secure and non-sedating which is not one or the other chemically nor pharmacologically related to opium alkaloids. Butamirate Citrate is quickly and totally ingested after verbal organization. Most extreme concentration is come to inside 9 hours with the sustained-release tablet. Typically greatly protein-bound and plasma disposal half-life is almost 13 hours. The dynamic metabolites of Butamirate Citrate have moreover antitussive activity.

 

Dosage & Administration of Bucod SR Tablet

Use in adult:

• Butamirate Citrate 50 mg tablet: 2-3 tablets daily.
• Butamirate Citrate syrup: 15 ml 4 times daily.

Use in children & adolescents:

Butamirate Citrate 50 mg tablet:

• Adolescent over 12 years old: 1-2 tablets daily.

Butamirate Citrate syrup:

• Children (3-6 yrs): 5 ml 3 times daily.
• Children (6-12 yrs): 10 ml 3 times daily.
• Adolescent: 15 ml 3 times daily.

Butamirate Citrate pediatric drops:

• Children ( 2 months- 1 yrs):50 ml 4 times daily.
• Children (1-3 yrs):75 ml 4 times daily.

 

Interaction of Bucod SR Tablet

It's best to avoid taking expectorants at the same time.

 

Contraindications

Intolerance to the active ingredient.

 

Side Effect of Bucod SR Tablet

Butamirate Citrate has a high tolerance. In a few rare cases, adverse reactions such as rash, nausea, diarrhoea, and vertigo have been reported, but they have all resolved after the dose was reduced or the treatment was stopped.

 

Pregnancy & Lactation

During the first trimester of pregnancy, butamirate Citrate should be avoided. It can be used for the rest of the pregnancy if a doctor recommends it, but only with caution. In the absence of data on the active substance's elimination in breast milk, the benefits of Butamirate Citrate administration during breast feeding should be carefully weighed for safety reasons.

 

Precautions & Warnings

In patients with epilepsy (avoid if poorly controlled, discontinue if convulsions develop), concurrent electroconvulsive therapy (prolonged seizures reported with fluoxetine), history of mania, cardiac disease, diabetes mellitus, angle-closure glaucoma, concomitant use of drugs that increase bleeding risk, and history of bleeding disorders, SSRIs should be used with caution.

 

Therapeutic Class

Cough suppressant

 

Storage Conditions

Protect from light and moisture by storing below 30°C. Keep the medicine out of children's reach.

 

Pharmaceutical Name of Bucod SR Tablet