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A weak opioid that acts as a cough suppressant but has no appreciable analgesic activity. It is therefore used for the treatment of
dry or painful coughs and is available as a linctus and as an ingredient of many cough medicines. Pholcodine is usually freely available over the counter, although some preparations can be bought only from a pharmacy, depending on the other ingredients.
Side effects: as for codeine, but side effects are rare. Pholcodine is not addictive.
Proprietary preparations: Benylin Children’s Dry Coughs; Boots Daytime Cough Relief; Famel Linctus; Galenphol, Galenphol Paediatric, and Galenphol Strong; Hill’s Balsam Dry Cough Liquid; Pavacol D; Tixylix Daytime; BOOTS CHILDREN’S I YEAR PLUS NIGHT TIME COUGH SYRUP (combined with diphenhydramine); BOOTS DAY COLD COMFORT (combined with paracetamol and pseudoephedrine); BOOTS NIGHT COLD COMFORT (combined with paracetamol, diphenhydramine, and pseudoephedrine);
BOOTS NIGHT-TIME COUGH RELIEF (combined with diphenhydramine); EXPULIN (combined with chlorpheniramine, menthol, and pseudoephedrine); EXPULIN DRY (combined with menthol); EXPULIN PAEDIATRIC (combined with chlorpheniramine and menthol); TIXYLIX COUGH & COLD (combined with chlorpheniramine and pseudoephedrine); TIXYLIX NIGHT-TIME (combined with promethazine).
