Acetylcysteine

• This medicine is mainly used in respiratory diseases associated with the production of viscous mucus , such as bronchitis and emphysema.
• Acetylcysteine ​​makes the mucus thinner and therefore less tough and makes the mucus easier to cough up. It is therefore used for a productive cough (mucus cough).
• The effect starts after 2 to 4 hours. The effect lasts from a few hours to a whole day. This depends on the amount taken.

Symptoms

• COPD is the abbreviation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. With COPD, the airways are permanently narrowed and you have problems with mucus in the airways.
• As a result, you have to cough a lot and are almost always short of breath. The complaints can temporarily increase or improve. The cause of COPD is usually damage to the airways, for example by smoking.

Treatment

• You can reduce chronic inflammation and further damage to your lungs by stopping smoking. It may take several months for the complaints to subside. Bronchodilators and airway protectors are often used in COPD.
• If you have a lot of tough mucus in the lungs, you can use acetylcysteine.

Effect

Acetylcysteine ​​makes the mucus thinner and therefore less tough, making it easier to cough up mucus. The effect is noticeable within a few days.

Symptoms

In asthma the muscles of the airways cramp. The mucous membranes also swell and make more mucus. This will make you short of breath, have to cough and feel short of breath.

These anxiety attacks are caused by stimuli, such as cold air, smoke, exertion, emotions and substances to which you are allergic. There are times when you are more sensitive to these stimuli.

Effect

Acetylcysteine ​​makes the mucus thinner and therefore less tough and therefore makes it easier to cough up the mucus. The effect is noticeable within a few days.

Symptoms

• The glands of the lungs, pancreas, liver, intestines, skin and mouth make mucus, which, among other things, ensures the transport of waste products.
• Cystic fibrosis (CF), also called cystic fibrosis or cystic fibrosis, is an inherited disease. In cystic fibrosis, the mucus is much tougher than usual. This makes the mucus in the airways difficult to cough up, for example. Bacteria and viruses are thus more difficult to remove from the lungs, causing many respiratory infections.

Treatment

• To prevent infections and shortness of breath, the tough mucus must be removed from the airways. To make coughing easier, the mucus is diluted, for example with acetylcysteine.

Effect

• Acetylcysteine ​​makes the mucus thinner and therefore less tough and therefore makes it easier to cough up the mucus. The effect is noticeable within a few days.

Symptoms

The symptoms of post-traumatic dystrophy (PD or PTD) are:

• unexplained pain in one of the limbs. The pain usually then subsides with movement;
• red or blue color of the skin;
• swelling of the body part;
• difference in skin temperature. At a warm temperature of the skin, one speaks of warm PD;
• painful muscle cramps and loss of touch are uncommon.

Cause

• Post-traumatic dystrophy usually develops after an injury to one of the limbs, such as a cut, bruise, fracture or surgery. It expands around this. In some of the patients, post-ramautic dystrophy develops without prior injury. The exact cause of post-traumatic dystrophy is not yet clear.

Treatment

• In some cases a doctor prescribes acetylcysteine ​​for post-traumatic dystrophy.

How it works

• How acetylcysteine ​​works in post-traumatic dystrophy is not well known.

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