VPT 311: General and Systemic Veterinary Pharmacology (2+1)

EXPECTORANTS

• Expectorants increase the fluidity and volume of respiratory secretions, and in the early stages of inflammation relieves pain and tends to reduce slightly the incidence of coughing.
• The contribution of expectorants to therapeutic success is slight and their main role today is as components of compound cough remedies for oral administration.
• Expectorants are classified as inhalant expectorants, ingested expectorants and mucolytic expectorants.