Promotional products for the prevention and treatment of influenza are now very expensive. And not everyone knows that there are effective inexpensive analogues of expensive drugs (generics) with the same active substance.

List of cheap analogues of expensive cold and flu medicines 2019-2020

Introducing you top 7 low-cost flu drugsthat are sold in most pharmacies. Just do not forget to consult a doctor, each remedy has contraindications. The price of drugs is based on data from medical portals.

7. Tablets "Echinacea"

Price: from 111 rubles.
Dear counterpart: "Immunal."

Echinacea is used to support immunity in the case of flu, colds, physical and mental fatigue, infections and inflammations of the nasopharynx and oral cavity. Replaces "Immunal" in which the active substance is echinacea.

6. Powder "Interferon"

Price: from 81 rubles.
Dear counterpart: "Grippferon."

Drops for the prevention of influenza and colds. They do not penetrate inside the body, are distributed along the nasal mucosa and are an obstacle to viruses. An analogue of "Grippferon" with the active substance interferon alpha-2b.

5. Tablets "Paracetamol" and "Vitamin C"

Price: from 8 and 183 rubles, respectively.
Dear counterpart: "Antigrippin", "Teraflu."

The combination of Paracetamol and Vitamin C helps with the initial signs of a cold and flu, no worse than expensive powders. First you need to drink 1 tablet of Paracetamol (500 mg), and after 5-10 minutes, dissolve 1/3 of the effervescent Vitamin C tablet in a glass of warm water. An analogue of Antigrippin with the following active ingredients: paracetamol, chlorphenamine maleate and ascorbic acid, and Teraflu, which also includes paracetamol, ascorbic acid, phenylephrine hydrochloride and pheniramine maleate.

4. Ibuprofen tablets

Price: from 17 rubles.
Dear counterpart: "Nurofen."

Accepted as an anti-inflammatory agent (affects only the signs, not the cause of inflammation). The drug helps to reduce headache and muscle pain and lowers temperature. It is a replacement for Nurofen with the active substance ibuprofen.

3. Tablets "Paracetamol"

Price: from 3 rubles.
Dear counterpart: "Panadol".

Effective antipyretic, vasoconstrictor and pain-reducing agent. An expensive analogue of these tablets is "Panadol" with the active substance paracetamol.

2. Tablets "Ambroxol"

Price: from 52 rubles.
Dear counterpart: "Lazolvan."

Stimulates sputum discharge during wet and dry cough. It helps not only with the flu, but also with acute and chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, bronchiectasis and bronchial asthma. If you have been prescribed the expensive Lazolvan with the active substance, Ambroxol, replace it with Ambroxol and do not cough.

1. Tablets "Rimantadine"

Price: from 67 rubles.
Dear counterpart: "Remantadine."

This antiviral medicine is an analogue of the popular and time-tested "Remantadine" with the same active substance. It is most effective in the first "flu" days and is suitable for children over 7 years old, and for adults.

Whatever drug the doctor recommends to you, remember that carrying the flu on your feet is not only unethical in relation to others (the patient can infect a dozen more people), but also bad for the body. The risk of complications increases, and it is too expensive to be sick today for too long.

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