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Chlorpheniramine, clemastine and a placebo have been compared for their ability to relieve bronchoconstriction in 14 childhood asthmatics between the ages of 6 and 14 years. Each attended on three separate occasions, inhaling a 2 ml solution containing either 4 mg of chlorpheniramine, 1 mg of clemastine or placebo under double-blind conditions. Lung function was assessed before and at intervals for 30 minutes after the inhalation by peak expiratory flow and spirometry. Each child then inhaled 5 mg of salbutamol in 2 ml of water and the lung function tests were repeated. A significant degree of bronchodilatation was seen 30 minutes after all three inhalations, but considerable coughing occurred after inhaling chlorpheniramine. Actual changes in raw data showed a significant improvement after clemastine between the 20 and 30 minute recordings and that at 30 minutes clemastine produced significantly greater bronchodilatation than placebo. Inhaled H1-receptor antagonists merit further investigation to delineate their role in childhood asthma.
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PMID:Bronchodilator effect of two inhaled H1-receptor antagonists, clemastine and chlorpheniramine, in wheezy school-children. 635 90

Cough is one of the commonest symptoms of respiratory tract infections and is a frequent problem encountered in general practice as well as in hospital practice. A wide range of disease processes may present with cough and definitive treatment depends on identifying the cause and diagnosis. Specific treatment of the cause should control the cough, but this may not occur in all cases and in a sizeable proportion of patients, no associated cause can be found. An increased sensitivity of the cough reflex can be observed in patients with dry cough. Symptomatic relief must be considered when the cough interferes with the patient's daily activities and this is effectively treated with antitussive preparations which are available as combinations of codeine or dextromethorphan with antihistamines, decongestants and expectorants Antitussives are used for effective symptomatic relief of dry or non-productive cough. First generation antihistamines like chlorpheniramine and centrally acting opioid derivatives like codeine are often used alone or in combination in the management of nonspecific cough. Sedation caused by these is valuable, particularly if the cough is disturbing the sleep. Although there is extensive experimental data on single agent antitussives and antitussive combinations, there is a major paucity of published literature on these combinations in nonspecific cough. Treatment of dry cough remains a challenge in some patients and this article reviews the scope of the current drugs and combination of Codeine and Chlorpheniramine in the effective management of dry cough.
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PMID:Current drugs for the treatment of dry cough. 2449 Apr 43

In the present paper, a multicomponent analysis approach based on spectrophotometry method was developed for simultaneous determination of Guaifenesin (GU), Chlorpheniramine (CHL) and Pseudoephedrine (PSE) without any separation steps. The method under study is signal processing method based on Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) coupled with zero cross point technique. In this paper, CWT method was tested by synthetic ternary mixtures and was applied to the commercial cough syrup as a real sample and assessed by applying the standard addition technique. For demonstrate the accuracy of the results, other applications of signal processing, such as Derivative Transform (DT), Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression and Principal Components Regression (PCR) were used as comparative methods. Afterwards, the obtained results from analyzing the cough syrup by all methods were compared to the High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) as a reference method. One-way analysis of variance test at 95% confidence level showed no significant differences between CWT and other applications.
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PMID:Use of continuous wavelet transform approach for simultaneous quantitative determination of multicomponent mixture by UV-Vis spectrophotometry. 2976 24

This paper aims to analyze the specific effect of chlorpheniramine on upper airway cough syndrome is related to its treatment of chronic rhinitis and sinusitis. A total of 218 patients admitted to hospital between March 2014 and June 2016 were treated with chlorpheniramine. The patients were divided into two groups based on treatment effect in follow-up visits (all were effective): effective group (114 cases, 52.29%) and ineffective group (104 cases, 47.71%). The proportion of complicated rhinitis or sinusitis of the two groups were compared, and improvement effect on clinical symptoms of chronic rhinitis and sinusitis after treatment was compared. The probability of rhinitis / sinusitis was 65.79% (75/114) in the effective group and 69.23% (72/104) in the ineffective group. There was no statistical difference between the two groups (P>0.05). In both effective and ineffective group, the symptoms such as chest tightness and shortness of breath and pharyngeal discomfort were improved to a certain extent, and the effective group had better improvement effect, but there was no statistical difference between the two groups (P>0.05). In addition, there was no correlation between improvement of cough and improvement of symptoms in the effective group, 21 cases of cough disappeared completely, while complete disappearance rate of other symptoms was only 57.15% (12/21). Chlorpheniramine is effective to some extent in treatment of upper airway cough syndrome, but chlorpheniramine in treatment of upper airway cough syndrome is not associated with rhinitis/sinusitis treatment.
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PMID:Therapeutic effect of chlorpheniramine in treatingupper airway cough syndrome (UACS) and chronic rhinitis/sinusitis. 3020 61