| abstract |
Pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of pain and inflammation and for the relief of nasal congestion and sinus compression in mammalian organisms. The composition includes (i) an analgesic and anti-inflammatory amount of ibuprofen- (S), or a salt thereof, substantially free of ibuprofen- (R); and (ii) a sympathomimetic amount of at least one sympathomimetic amine selected from phenylephrine, phenylpropanolamine, pseudoephedrine, oxymetazoline, ephinephrine, naphazoline, xylometazoline, propylhexedrine, levo-deoxyephedrine or a therapeutically active stereoisomer thereof, substantially free of its other stereoisomers, or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt. |