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Children's Triaminic Thin Strips<sup>®</sup> - Day Time Cold & Cough

Product Instructions and Information

Day Time Triaminic Thin Strips® Cold & Cough

Active Ingredients (in each strip)

  • Dextromethorphan 3.67 mg (equivalent to 5 mg Dextromethorphan HBr)
    Purpose: Cough suppressant
  • Phenylephrine HCl 2.5 mg
    Purpose: Nasal decongestant

Uses

  • temporarily relieves
  • nasal and sinus congestion
  • cough due to minor throat and bronchial irritation as may occur with a cold

Warnings
Do not use

  • in a child under 4 years of age
  • in a child who is taking a prescription monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) (certain drugs for depression, psychiatric or emotional conditions, or Parkinson's disease), or for 2 weeks after stopping the MAOI drug. If you do not know if the child's prescription drug contains an MAOI, ask a doctor or pharmacist before giving this product.

Ask a doctor before use if the child has

  • heart disease
  • high blood pressure
  • thyroid disease
  • diabetes
  • chronic cough that lasts, or as occurs with asthma
  • cough that occurs with too much phlegm (mucus)

When using this product

  • do not exceed recommended dosage

Stop use and ask a doctor if

  • nervousness, dizziness or sleeplessness occurs
  • symptoms do not improve within 7 days or occur with a fever
  • cough persists for more than 7 days, comes back or occurs with a fever, rash or persistent headache. These could be signs of a serious condition.

Keep out of reach of children. In case of overdose, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away.

Directions

May be given every 4 hours. Do not give more than 6 doses in 24 hours unless directed by a doctor.
  • Children under 4 years of age: do not use.
  • Children 4 to under 6 years of age: allow 1 strip to dissolve on tongue
  • Children 6 to under 12 years of age: allow 2 strips to dissolve on tongue

Other Information

store at controlled room temperature 20-25°C (68-77°F)

Inactive Ingredients

acetone, alcohol, FD&C blue #1, FD&C red #40, flavors, hypromellose, isopropyl alcohol, microcrystalline cellulose, polacrilin, polyethylene glycol, propylene glycol, purified water, sodium polystyrene sulfonate, sucralose, titanium dioxide

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