Hydromorphone

Product name : Hydromorphone

CAS : 466-99-9

Molecular formula : C₁₇H₁₉NO₃

Molecular Weight : 285.34

Product description:Hydromorphone is used in medicine as an alternative to morphine for analgesia, and as a second- or third-line narcotic antitussive (cough suppressant) for cases of dry, painful, paroxysmal coughing resulting from continuing bronchial irritation after influenza and other ailments, inhalation of fungus, and other causes. In general, it is considered the strongest of the antitussive drugs, and was developed shortly after diacetylmorphine (heroin) was removed from clinical use for this purpose in most of the world and banned outright in many countries. The effectiveness of hydrocodone as an antitussive may be partly due its being partially converted to hydromorphone in the liver.