Respiratory Handbook
For UK audiences

The professional's guide to product selection

Phoenix Healthcare Distribution

  • Rivington Road
  • Whitehouse Industrial Estate

  • Runcorn
  • Cheshire
  • WA7 3DJ

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Betamethasone - Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Ltd

By mouth
• Adult: usual range 0.5–5 mg daily.

By intramuscular injection or by slow intravenous injection or infusion
• Adult: 4–20 mg, repeated up to 4 times in 24 hours.

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Budesonide - Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Ltd

Prophylaxis and treatment of allergic rhinitis and nasal polyps by intranasal administration
• Over 6 years: 256 mcg once daily, to be administered as 2 sprays into each nostril in the morning, reduce dose when control achieved. Alternatively, 128 mcg…

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Carbocisteine - Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Ltd

Mucolytic to facilitate expectoration.

• Child 2–4 years: 62.5–125 mg, 4 times daily
• Child 5–11 years: 250 mg, 3 times daily
• Over 12 years: initially 2.25 g daily in divided doses, then 1.5 g daily in divided doses as condition improves.

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Cetirizine Hydrochloride - Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Ltd

Non-sedating antihistamine.

• Child 1 year: 250 mcg/kg twice daily.
• Child 2–5 years: 2.5 mg, twice daily.
• Child 6–11 years: 5 mg, twice daily.
• Over 12 years: 10 mg, once daily.

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Chlorphenamine maleate - Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Ltd

Sedating antihistamine.

By mouth for symptomatic relief of allergy such as hay fever, urticaria, food allergy, drug reactions, relief of itch associated with chickenpox.


• Child 1–23 months: 1 mg, twice daily.
• Child 2–5 years: 1 mg, every 4–6 hours,…

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Desloratadine - Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Ltd

Non-sedating antihistamine.

• Child 1–5 years: 1.25 mg once daily.
• Child 6–11 years: 2.5 mg once daily.
• Over 12 years: 5 mg once daily.

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Dexamethasone - Phoenix Healthcare Distribution

Suppression of inflammatory and allergic disorders by mouth
• Child: 10–100 mcg/kg daily in 1–2 divided doses.
• Adult: 0.5–10 mg daily.

Mild croup by mouth
Child: 150 mcg/kg for 1 dose

Severe croup by mouth
Child: initially 150 mcg/kg before transfer t…

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Fexofenadine hydrochloride - Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Ltd

Non-sedating antihistamine.

Seasonal allergic rhinitis
• Child 6–11 years: 30 mg, twice daily.
• Over 12 years: 120 mg, once daily.

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Hydrocortisone - Phoenix

For the treatment of anaphylaxis and asthma.

By intravenous injection for acute hypersensitivity reactions
• Adult: 100–300 mg, to be administered as sodium succinate.

By intramuscular injection, or by intravenous injection for acute hypersensitivity r…

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Ipratropium bromide - Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Ltd

Antimuscarinic bronchodilator.

Reversible airway obstruction by inhalation of aerosol
• Child 1 month–5 years: 20 mcg, 3 times daily.
• Child 6–11 years: 20–40 mcg, 3 times daily.
• Over 12 years: 20–40 mcg, 3–4 times daily.

For reversible airways obstr…

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Levocetirizine hydrochloride - Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Ltd

Non-sedating antihistamine.

• Child 2–5 years: 1.25 mg, twice daily.
• Over 6 years: 5 mg, once daily.

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Prednisolone - Phoenix Labs Ltd

By mouth for acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Adult: 30 mg daily for 7–14 days.

By mouth for severe croup or mild croup that might cause complications (before transfer to hospital)
• Child: 1–2 mg/kg.

By mouth for mild to mod…

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Salbutamol - Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Ltd

Short-acting selective beta2 agonist.

Injection
• Child 1–23 months, by intravenous injection over 5 minutes: 5 mcg/kg as a single dose.
• Child 2–17 years, by intravenous injection over 5 minutes: 15 mcg/kg (maximum 250 mcg) as a single dose.
• Adult, …