What Are the Benefits of Bromaline?

While many consider springtime to be the best part of the year, allergy sufferers dread the opening of blossoms, the drifting pollen in the air, and the dust that moves in with drier weather. Pharmaceutical companies have turned spring miseries, such as congested sinuses and itchy, watering eyes, into a profit-making opportunity, marketing remedies to relieve people's allergy symptoms so they, too, can enjoy the beauty of the season. Many of those who suffer allergies rely on the benefits of Bromaline to ameliorate those springtime sniffles.

Reduced Allergy Symptoms

• Bromaline contains brompheniramine, an antihistamine that counteracts the body's naturally produced histamine. Histamine is a chemical that can react with H1 receptor cells to create the symptoms of allergic reaction, such as sneezing, runny nose and itchy eyes. The antihistamine agent in Bromaline can therefore address or virtually eliminate these symptoms.

Reduced Nasal Congestion

• Combat spring pollen with allergy medication.

  The second active ingredient in Bromaline, pseudoephedrine, shrinks those dilated blood vessels that cause congestion in the sinus passages. According to Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration, pseudoephedrine acts similarly to the drug ephedrine in improving ventilation and promoting drainage in the nasal passages, but interferes less with the body's central nervous system.

Suppression of Coughing

• One Bromaline product, with the designation DM, contains dextromethorphan. This chemical targets the sigma opioid receptors in the central nervous system in order to reduce your urge to cough. It also affects receptors in the cerebellum of the brain, an area that coordinates movement, to reduce the coughing reflex. When you cough less, the irritation in your throat has a chance to heal rather than become more irritated from prolonged coughing.

Relief of Cold Symptoms

• Bromaline can reduce symptoms of the common cold.

  Bromaline not only benefits allergy symptoms, but also is a useful cold medicine that reduces many of the symptoms common between allergies and colds, such as congestion, runny nose, watery eyes, and--if using Bromaline DM--cough. The active ingredient brompheniramine maleate also has sedative properties that can help you sleep and allow your natural antibodies more energy to fend off the cold virus.