Box of Kimco Piccan Carbocisteine Syrup for children's coughs and sore throats, 200ml, with purple and black design and a baby icon.

Cough Relief

(Purple Pack)

Breaks down mucus & loosens up chest congestion.

  • PICCAN Cough relief delivers carbocisteine via an easy to administer oral syringe and pleasant caramel & currant flavour.

    Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory.

  • Coughing, excess mucus, chest congestion, excess phlegm.

  • Ages 3-6 months (more than 5kg)
    Take 2.5ml with no more than 3 doses in any 24 hours period

    Ages 6-12 months
    Take 2.5ml with no more than 3 doses in any 24 hours period

    Ages 1-2 years
    Take 2.5ml with no more than 3-4 doses in any 24 hours period

    Ages 3-7 years
    Take 5ml with no more than 3-4 doses in any 24 hours period

    Ages 8-12 years
    Take 10ml with no more than 3-4 doses in any 24 hours period

How to use the syringe

Shake the bottle for about 5 seconds and then remove the childproof cap by pushing the cap down and twisting anti-clockwise at the same time.

You will notice a reducer plug in the neck of the bottle.

Syringe drawing injecting into a small bottle, with an arrow pointing down.

Step 1

Gently insert the end of the syringe into the hole and ensure it is secure.

Illustration of a hand holding a syringe in an upright position, with an arrow indicating upward and downward movement.

Step 2

Hold the syringe in place and turn the bottle upside down. Using your other hand, gently pull-down the syringe plunger to the required dosage (either 2.5 ml or 5 ml).

A syringe with visible measurement markings is being inserted into a vial containing liquid. A downward arrow illustrates the action of drawing the liquid into the syringe, representing a common step in medical preparation

Step 3

Turn the bottle the right way up, then remove the syringe by holding onto the bottle and twisting out gently.

Place the syringe inside the child's mouth against the cheek and press the plunger slowly to release the medicine.

After use, the reducer plug should remain in the neck of the bottle. Wipe the top clean and rinse the cap before replacing. Wash the syringe by drawing the plunger in and out in soapy water several times. Then rinse the syringe in clean water in the same way.

Cough Relief FAQS

  • The active substance is carbocisteine. The pharmaceutical form of this medicine is syrup and you will take it orally.

    1 ml of syrup contains 50 mg of carbocisteine (each 5 ml of syrup contains 0.250 g of carbocisteine).

    PICCAN Cough Relief is for sale in pharmacies in packages containing 100 ml of syrup.

    PICCAN Cough Relief is included in the group of expectorants. Carbocisteine, with mucolytic action, is fixed selectively on the bronco-pulmonary tissue and its specific activity on the mucus-secretory cells allows establishing a production of mucus qualitatively and quantitatively normal.

    PICCAN Cough Relief is indicated as mucolytic adjuvant in the antibacterial treatment of respiratory infections with bronchial hypersecretion.

  • Always take this medicine exactly as described in this leaflet or as your doctor or pharmacist have told you. Check with your doctor pharmacist if you are not sure.
    Using the measuring device, measure the quantity that you will need whether you are an adult or a child, according to the general posology:

    Children:
    Up to 5 years old: 2.5 ml 2 to 4 times daily.
    From 6 to 12 years old: 5 ml 2 to 4 times daily in properly spaced intervals.
    Adults: 15 ml 2 to 4 times daily.
    After using the syrup, tightly close the bottle.

    Average treatment duration
    Being a sulphur therapy of impregnation type, the treatment duration should not be less than 10 days, and it can be longer than this period, if advised by the doctor.

    If you take more PICCAN Cough Relief than you should
    If epigastralgia, nausea and vomiting occur, suspend the administration of PICCAN Cough Relief and see the doctor.

    If you forget to take PICCAN Cough Relief
    Do not take a double dose to make up for a forgotten dose.

    If you have any further questions on the use of this medicine, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

  • Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.

    If any of the side effects gets serious, or if you notice any side effects not listed in this leaflet, please tell your doctor or pharmacist.

    Occasionally:
    Digestive disorders: nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.

    Rarely:
    Hypersensitivity reactions, such as hives and bronchospasm. Special attention in the patients with asthma due to the risk of bronchoconstriction. In these cases, you should stop the treatment.

    Headache, myalgia, dizziness, urinary incontinence, palpitations and dyspnoea.
    There have been very rare reports of digestive haemorrhage and skin rash.