Key points about morphine Morphine is used for pain relief and to ease breathlessness or cough in palliative care. Some types of morphine are
Codeine is an opioid drug closely related to morphine and, like morphine, is also derived from opium poppies. cough (cough suppressant).
Cough suppressant; Anti-diarrheal Contraindications: Ethanol (alcoholic morphine metabolite morphine-6β-glucuronide but not morphine itself.
Determine fears; explain; anxiolytic – e.g. lorazepam. Cough. Cough If the patient is known to be intolerant to morphine or morphine not effective.
It was developed chiefly as a morphine substitute for cough suppressants that did not have morphine's addictive side-effects. Morphine at the time was a
Morphine was also added to medications like cough syrups as a cough suppressant. Parents gave morphine-laced syrups to treat diarrhea in
morphine that made it more palatable as a cough suppressant morphine that made it more palatable as a cough suppressant. The Bayer Co, predecessor to
Key points about morphine Morphine is used for pain relief and to ease breathlessness or cough in palliative care. Some types of morphine are
Codeine also has antitussive properties and is used in some cough and cold medicines to control non-productive cough. morphine and morphine-6-
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