Mucoactive therapy uses mucoactive agents, a class of pharmacologic agents that includes expectorants, mucolytics, mucoregulators and mucokinetics, that can affect the volume, viscosity, transportation and composition of mucus or sputum. These agents often aid in clearing mucus or sputum from the upper and lower airways, and are used to treat respiratory diseases complicated by the oversecretion or inspissation of mucus; the drugs in this class can be further categorized by their mechanism of action.
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