✅ Benefits

• Relieves bronchial spasms in asthma and COPD: selectively inhibits phosphodiesterase‑4, relaxing airway smooth muscles effectively.Reddit+13MedEasy+13Diabetes Store+13

• Better tolerated than theophylline: minimal interaction with adenosine receptors, reducing CNS and cardiac side effects.MedEasyACME Laboratories Ltd.

• Also attenuates inflammatory mediators: reduces platelet‑activating factor and leukotrienes.MedEasy

• Flexible dosing regimen:

  • Tablets 200 mg: 1 tablet twice daily; may increase to 2 tablets twice daily based on response.

  • Tablets 400 mg (SR): once daily at night, optionally up to twice daily.Medex+7ACME Laboratories Ltd.+7ePharma.com.bd+7

• Available in syrup for pediatric use: approx. 6 mg/kg twice daily for children >6 years.ACME Laboratories Ltd.

• Low-cost option in Bangladesh: ~৳8 per tablet; strip of 10 tablets ≈৳80.