All Respiratory Drug Therapy

Drug therapies that act on the airway and lungs. This includes airway-opening drugs such as bronchodilator therapy, cough and mucus drugs such as antitussive therapy and mucoactive therapy, allergy drugs such as antihistamine therapy and decongestant therapy that primarily treat respiratory or nasal symptoms, and neonatal lung drugs such as surfactant therapy. Devices that deliver a respiratory drug, such as a nebulizer or dry-powder inhaler, are grouped instead under drug delivery routes and methods.