Eugica Fort is a medicine is prescribed for coughs, colds, sore throats, or runny noses. The medicine contains essences and medicinal substances that can help in soothing coughs and effectively reducing flu symptoms. Before and during using the medicine, you need to follow the correct dosage prescribed by your doctor.
1. What is Eugica Fort?
Eugica Fort (red pill) is a medicine used to treat sore throats, coughs, runny noses, and colds. In addition, the medicine also has the effect of thinning mucus, soothing coughs, and disinfecting the respiratory tract. Eugica Fort red is prepared in the form of soft capsules containing a transparent red medicine solution. Each Eugica fort capsule contains the following main ingredients:
- Active ingredient eucalyptol 100mg.
- Active ingredient menthol 0.5mg.
- Ginger essential oil 0.75mg.
- Eucalyptus essential oil content 0.36mg.
- Cajeput essential oil content 50mg.
- Some other excipients such as glycerin, gelatin, vanillin, ponceau red, and sodium benzoate.
2. Indications and uses of Eugica Fort red
2.1. Indications for using Eugica fort
Eugica fort is often prescribed by doctors for some specific cases below:
- Respiratory tract disinfection.
- Relieve cough, while helping to thin mucus.
- Treatment for people with runny nose, flu, cough, and sore throat.
2.2. What is the effect of Eugica fort?
Eugica fort is a harmonious combination of medicinal herbs of the group of treating flu plants and coughs such as cajeput, echinacea, ginger, and mint. Each ingredient in Eugica Fort has different effects, including:
- The active ingredient eucalyptol has antiseptic, digestive stimulant, and effective cough-relieving effects.
- The active ingredient menthol (brain mint) is an extract of peppermint essential oil, which has the effect of thinning mucus and soothing coughs.
- Ginger helps prevent allergies, and antispasmodic smooth muscles, providing antibacterial, cough-relieving, anti-inflammatory, fluid-thinning, and pain-relieving effects. Ginger essential oil is also used to treat colds, and coughs with voice loss, induce sweating, reduce phlegm cough, bronchitis, bronchial asthma, and sore throat, and prevent infections in runny nose and cough. Ginger also helps treat bloating, indigestion, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and vomiting well.
- Cajeput essential oil helps to sterilize, loosen phlegm, and clear the respiratory tract, helping to effectively treat mild respiratory infections.
- Perilla (lemon basil) helps treat coughs, asthma, and colds. Perilla essential oil is considered a strong antibiotic, killing several strains of bacteria.
3. Dosage of Eugica Fort
Red Eugica fort is used orally with the recommended dose below:
- Dosage for children > 30 months old: Take 1 tablet/time and 2 times/day.
- Dosage for adults: Take 1 tablet/time, 3 - 4 times a day.
The above dosage of red Eugica fort is for reference only, you can talk directly with your doctor to get the appropriate dosage for your health condition and the progression of your health condition. In case of an overdose, you need to immediately notify your doctor or go to a hospital for timely support. If you forget to take a dose, the patient should take it as soon as they remember. However, if the time for the next dose is near, skip the missed dose and use the medicine as scheduled, avoid taking a double dose at the same time.
4. Some side effects when using Eugica Fort
While using Eugica Fort, patients may experience some of the following notable side effects:
- Abdominal pain.
- Nausea or vomiting.
- Dizziness.
- Drowsiness.
When any of the side effects listed above appear, the patient can reduce the dose or temporarily stop taking the medicine until the symptoms disappear and then take the medicine again. However, if the abnormal signs progress severely over time, you need to inform your doctor for treatment.
5. Contraindications for using Eugica Fort red
Eugica Fort is not recommended for use in the following cases:
- People who are allergic or hypersensitive to the active ingredients in the drug.
- People with respiratory failure, tuberculosis, or asthma should not use Eugica Fort.
- Children under 30 months old, with a history of convulsions due to high fever or epilepsy should avoid using the drug.
6. Can Eugica Fort interact with other drugs?
Currently, there are no studies on the interaction between Eugica fort and other drugs. However, you should inform your doctor about the list of drugs you are using, such as prescription drugs, herbal products, vitamins, supplements, or functional supplements. Interactions between drugs can affect the mechanism of action and increase the risk of side effects.
In addition, to ensure safety when taking Eugica Fort, patients should avoid stopping or changing the dose of the drug without permission from the doctor.
7. Some things to note when using Eugica Fort Red
7.1. What should be careful when using Eugica Fort?
To achieve high efficiency in treating coughs, colds, ... with Eugica Fort, patients should note the following:
- Be careful when using it for children because the active ingredient menthol in the drug has the effect of inhibiting respiration through the airways.
- Keep the drug out of reach of children and avoid areas easily exposed to pets in the house.
- Read the instructions carefully before using the drug to ensure safe and correct use.
- The drug can cause side effects such as drowsiness or dizziness, so people who drive vehicles or operate machinery need to be careful when using it.
- Pregnant and breastfeeding women also need to be careful when using Eugica Fort because there are no reports on the safety of the drug for them.
7.2. How to store Eugica Fort
Eugica Fort needs to be stored at normal temperature, away from damp places or high temperatures. For expired drugs, you need to destroy the drug according to the pharmacist's instructions to ensure safety for those around you as well as the environment. Hopefully, the information shared about Eugica Fort will help you use the drug effectively as well as minimize unwanted side effects.
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