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2. Doctors Say This Is How You Can Loosen and Clear Mucus ... - AOL

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   In contrast, expectorants lubricate your airway, which helps loosen up the mucus and make the secretions in your airway thinner. By loosening up the mucus, expectorants make your cough more ...

3. The Type of Cough Medicine You Take Could Make a Big ... - AOL

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   The type of cough you have is a clue to what's causing it: A wet cough (the type that brings up phlegm or mucus) is often a sign of a lower respiratory infection.

4. Doctors Say This Is the Best, Most Effective Way to ... - AOL

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   “These are great to moisten and loosen up hard mucus so it blows out easier,” Dr. Parikh says. In fact, Dr. Kelley calls salt water irrigation the “gold-standard intervention” for nasal ...

5. Ambroxol - Wikipedia

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   Ambroxol is a drug that breaks up phlegm, used in the treatment of respiratory diseases associated with viscid or excessive mucus. Ambroxol is often administered as an active ingredient in cough syrup. It was patented in 1966 and came into medical use in 1979. [1]

6. Mucoactive agent - Wikipedia

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   It is commonly available in cough syrups and also as sustained-release tablets. Mucolytics can dissolve thick mucus and are usually used to help relieve respiratory difficulties. They do this by breaking down the chemical bonds between molecules in the mucus. [5] This in turn can lower the viscosity by altering the mucin-containing components.

7. Bromhexine - Wikipedia

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   Bromhexine is intended to support the body's mechanisms for clearing mucus from the respiratory tract. It is secretolytic, increasing the production of serous mucus in the respiratory tract, which makes the phlegm thinner and less viscous. This contributes to a secretomotoric effect, allowing the cilia to more easily transport the phlegm out of ...