KROK 1 2014 – Question 76 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
A child patient has dry cough. What non-narcotic antitussive drug will relieve the patient’s condition?
- A. Glaucine hydrochloride
- B. Potassium iodide
- C. Althaea officinalis root extract
- D. Morphine hydrochloride
- E. Codeine phosphate
Hint
Sort the drugs by pharmacological class and ask which of them suppress cough centrally without being opioids, which matters especially in children.
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