ACC Long for children

With viscous sputum, pediatricians often prescribe mucolytics. ACC long is very popular among such drugs, but is this medicine allowed in childhood?

The drug is available in the form of effervescent tablets. They have white color and round shape. Dissolving such a tablet in water, you get a clear liquid without color, which smells like blackberry. Tablets are packaged in polypropylene tubes. One tube contains 10 or 20 effervescent tablets.

Acetylcysteine ​​is the main component in ACC Long. This substance contains 600 mg per tablet. Additionally, the tablets contain lactose, carbonate, citrate and sodium bicarbonate, citric acid, saccharinate and sodium cyclamate, mannitol, ascorbic acid, and blackberry flavor.

The drug is a mucolytic agent and after ingestion it affects mucopolysaccharides in the sputum, reducing the viscosity of mucus secreted by the bronchi. The drug is active even with purulent inflammation.

The instructions for use contain information that ACC Long is not given to children under the age of 14, because the dosage of acetylcysteine ​​is too high. Other forms of release with a reduced content of the active substance are suitable for younger children:

• Syrup.
• Soluble granules.
• Effervescent tablets.

At a dose of 100 mg, the drug is approved from 2 years of age, and a dosage of 200 mg is prescribed from 6 years of age.

ACC Long is prescribed for diseases of the respiratory system, when an excessively viscous sputum is formed, which is excreted with great difficulty. These include:

• Laryngotracheitis.
• Cystic fibrosis.
• Acute bronchitis.
• Bronchiolitis.
• Obstructive bronchitis.
• Pneumonia.
• Chronical bronchitis.
• Bronchiectasis.

ENT-doctors prescribe such medicine with otitis media, as well as with sinusitis.

Promotional video of the drug ACC Long:

ACC Long should not be prescribed for:

• Intolerance to any component of the medication.
• Exacerbation of peptic ulcer.
• Hemoptysis.
• Bleeding from the lungs.
• Lactase deficiency.

The drug is given with caution in bronchial asthma, diabetes, disorders of the kidneys or liver, as well as increased blood pressure and adrenal pathologies.

Rare negative reactions to such a remedy are headaches, stomatitis, bronchospasm, pruritus, noise in the ear, urticaria, bleeding. Some patients may have decreased blood pressure, diarrhea, nausea, heart palpitations, and heartburn.

Detailed video instruction of the drug ACC:

A child over the age of 14 is given 1 tablet of the drug per day. For the treatment of ARVI, the medicine is used from 5 to 7 days, and for more serious pathologies, the duration of therapy should be determined by the doctor individually.

The tablet is immersed in a glass of pure water, waiting for dissolution and immediately drunk. This should be done after one of the meals.The finished solution should not be stored longer than 2 hours. ATC Long should be mixed with water only in glassware, because upon contact with metal or rubber, such medicine will form sulfides (there will be an unpleasant smell).

If you exceed the dose of ACC Long, it will cause nausea, stomach pain, diarrhea, heartburn or vomiting. In such a situation, symptomatic therapy is prescribed.

• If you use antitussive drugs together with ACC Long, this can lead to stagnation of mucus in the bronchial tree.
• Nitroglycerin, taken in conjunction with ACC Long, has a stronger vasodilator effect.
• When taking acetylcysteine, absorbability of penicillin antibiotics, as well as tetracyclines and cephalosporins decreases. If these drugs are prescribed together, their methods are divided in time, so that there is at least 2 hours between them.
• You cannot take ACC long and proteolytic enzymes together.

ACC Long is a non-prescription drug, so it can be freely purchased at the pharmacy. The average price of a tube with 10 tablets is 300-350 rubles.

For storage of ACC Long you need a dry place, hidden from sunlight, where the temperature will not exceed + 30 ° C. Since the release of the tablet can be used for 3 years.

About the drug ACC Long respond mostly positively, noting that the drug quite effectively dilutes the sputum and helps her coughing up.

It is possible to replace ACC long with other mucolytic drugs. Among them, the most sought after Ambroxol, Flamed, Lasolvan, Ambrobene, Fluditec other.