Lemsip Cough & Cold Caps with Caffeine 12s

Lemsip Cough and Cold Capsules With Caffeine 12s are used to relive the symptoms of coughs, colds and flu including headache, sore throat, body ache, fever and pain. Each capsule contains 500mg of paracetamol and 25mg caffeine, which acts as a stimulant to relieve fatigue and drowsiness. It also contains 100mg of Guaifenesin, an expectorant which loosens phlegm making it easier to clear from the lungs.

Capsule Contents:

• The pain reliever paracetamol to help relieve your body aches and pains, sore throat, headache and fever
• The expectorant guaifenesin helps loosen chesty phlegm making it easier to clear.
• The stimulant caffeine to help you fight tiredness and fatigue.

Most coughs are caused by colds or flu. Other causes can include smoking, heartburn, allergies (hay fever, for example), asthma, infections such as bronchitis, mucus dripping down the throat from the back of the nose and – very rarely - something more serious. It should clear up on its own within three weeks.

A cough is a reflex action to clear away a foreign particle or excess mucus from our airways. How it does this is quite complicated, involving our airways, brain and stomach muscles. Receptors in our airways get irritated by a foreign particle and send a message to the 'cough centre' in our brain, which triggers a message to our stomach muscles and diaphragm to start a cough to get rid of these pesky invaders.

Coughs that last for a few weeks are known as acute coughs. These tend to be caused by infections of the upper respiratory tract, such as colds and flu. Infection of the lower respiratory tract, deep down in the lungs include bronchitis and pneumonia. Some people have chronic coughs that last for longer than 8 weeks. These can be caused by smoking, asthma, allergies, mucus dripping down from the throat to the back of the nose, and some medications.

Maximum order quantity of ONE pack per order.