• Bronchial asthma and COPD:
    • Adults:
      • 400mg BD/TDS
    • Children:
      • 12mg/kg daily divided into 2 doses
      • Max 18mg/kg daily

Tablet: 400mg

Suspension: 100mg/5mL

Taken with meals preferably in the evening

Bronchodilator xanthine

It helps relax the smooth muscles of the airways in the lungs through inhibition of phosphodiesterase activity thus increasing the levels of cAMP and promoting smooth muscle relaxation

  • Nausea & vomiting
  • Epigastric pain
  • Headache
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Bradycardia
  • Extrasystole
  • Tachypnea
  • Hypersensitivity to components
  • Acute MI
  • Hypotension
  • Lactating women

None remarkable

                          Drug Status

Availability Prescription only
Pregnancy Category D
Breastfeeding Contraindicated
Schedule Not controlled
BRAND NAME STRENGTH FORMULATION PACK SIZE MANUFACTURER DISTRIBUTOR
Bronchowin 100mg/5mL Suspension 60mL Medisel Kenya Medisel Kenya
Bronchowin 400mg Tablet 30’s Medisel Kenya Medisel Kenya