Covonia Dry Cough Sugar Free Formula 5mg/5ml oral solution

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Source: MHRA (Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency)

Active ingredient:

Pholcodine

Available from:

Thornton & Ross Ltd

ATC code:

R05DA08

INN (International Name):

Pholcodine

Dosage:

1mg/1ml

Pharmaceutical form:

Oral solution

Administration route:

Oral

Class:

Schedule 5 (CD Inv)

Prescription type:

Valid as a prescribable product

Product summary:

BNF: 03090100; GTIN: 5011309432619

Patient Information leaflet

COVONIA DRY COUGH SUGAR FREE FORMULA

Summary of Product characteristics

OBJECT 1
COVONIA DRY COUGH SUGAR FREE
Summary of Product Characteristics Updated 24-Jan-2018 | Thornton &
Ross Ltd
1. Name of the medicinal product
Covonia Dry Cough Sugar Free Formula
2. Qualitative and quantitative composition
Pholcodine monohydrate 5.0mg/5ml
For a full list of excipients, see section 6.1.
3. Pharmaceutical form
Oral solution
A viscous brown coloured liquid
4. Clinical particulars
4.1 Therapeutic indications
Cough suppressant for the relief of acute non-productive cough
associated with upper respiratory tract
infections
4.2 Posology and method of administration
For oral administration
Adults and Children over 12 years
One or two 5ml spoonfuls three or four times daily.
Not more than 4 doses should be given in any 24 hours
Elderly:
Adult dose is appropriate.
4.3 Contraindications
Liver failure.
Should not be administered to patients in or at risk of developing
respiratory failure or during an attack of
asthma.
Patients with chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD), bronchiolitis or
bronchiectasis due to sputum retention.
Patients receiving monoamine oxidase inhibitors or within 2 weeks of
cessation of their use (see section
4.5)_._
Known hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the
excipients.
Do not give to children under 12 years.
4.4 Special warnings and precautions for use
Should be used with caution in patients with renal, hepatic or
respiratory disease, including a history of
asthma.
Covonia Dry Cough Sugar Free Formula and other cough suppressants may
cause sputum retention and
this may be harmful in patients with chronic bronchitis and
bronchiectasis.
Ask a doctor before use if you suffer from a chronic or persistent
cough, if you have asthma, are suffering
from an acute asthma attack or where cough is accompanied by excessive
secretions.
Use of pholcodine monohydrate with alcohol or other CNS depressants
may increase the effects on the
CNS and cause toxicity in relatively smaller doses.
It also contains sodium methyl, sodium ethyl and sodium propyl
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