it's a drug that caused bad side effects and I want to know about its origin
2007-04-02 10:26:56 · 6 answers · asked by sydney h 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Franol.
Franol plus tablets contain two active ingredients, theophylline and ephedrine. These are both medicines called bronchodilators. They are used to open the airways.
Theophylline causes the muscles surrounding the airways to relax by a mechanism that is not fully understood. This allows the airways in the lungs to open.
Ephedrine works by acting on receptors in the lungs called beta 2 receptors. When ephedrine stimulates these receptors it causes the muscles in the airways to relax. This allows the airways to open.
In conditions where the airways tighten, such as asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD, eg emphysema and chronic bronchitis) , it is difficult for air to get in and out of the lungs. By opening the airways, this medicine makes it easier to breathe.
2007-04-02 10:34:24 · answer #1 · answered by RexRomanus 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you taking about Fiorinal? That is a prescription drug prescribed for mild to moderate pain relief. If this is what you think you may have taken, then make sure you don't ever take it again. There are many other things you can be prescribed for pain.
Tell us what it was prescribed for and what it looked like and I bet someone on here can tell you about the drug.
2007-04-02 11:14:06 · answer #2 · answered by Patti C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it possibly Pharanol a liquid form of steriods? If so the proper name for it is furenol. Another drug is Fioronal which is Fioricet is a combination of butalbitol,acetaminophen and caffeine it can be used for pain but better used for migranes
2007-04-02 10:32:59 · answer #3 · answered by crazy8lazy9 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Franol Side Effects
2016-12-12 18:48:14 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could it have been Fioronal? That is for bad headaches
2007-04-02 10:39:50 · answer #5 · answered by Kat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you sure it wasn't "Fentanyl"?
2007-04-02 10:35:31 · answer #6 · answered by kayla_bunny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋