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Cough is a fundamental protective reflex that ensures the permeability of the respiratory tract.

Cough can be of two types: acute or chronic. It is known acute cough, which can last up to fifteen days, is related to respiratory infections. Chronic cough is known as a cough that lasts more than fifteen to thirty days.

Cough is common in most acute viral infections of the upper respiratory tract and often leads to medical consultation.

The antitussive or antitussive is a drug used to treat irritative, non-productive dry cough. Antitussives are compounds that act on the central or peripheral nervous system to suppress the spontaneous cough.

Medications of the opiate type: are the most consumed as antitussives.

Medications Non-opioids: their cough suppressing efficacy may exist but not demonstrated in controlled clinical trials. The mechanism of action is still omitted.

These include Clofedianol: it suppresses the cough reflex through an effect on that center, located in the medulla oblongata. It may also have a moderate local anesthetic effect and some antimuscarinic action. Symptomatic treatment of non-productive cough.

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