Brompheniramine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Brompheniramine is a medicine sold in the U.S. under 3 brand and generic names. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Available as
- Tablet · Capsule · Injectable
- Sold as
- 3 products — Brompheniramine Maleate, Dimetane and Dimetane-Ten
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Yes
Every brompheniramine product we track (3)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
| # | Drug | Rating | Type | Form | Generic? | Pharmacy pays | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not yet rated | Prescription | Tablet | No data | — | View → | |
| 2 | Not yet rated | Prescription | Capsule | No data | — | View → | |
| 3 | Not yet rated | Prescription | Injectable | No data | — | View → |
Combination products containing brompheniramine
A combination is a different drug — different dosing, different warnings. It is listed here so you can find it, not so you can substitute it.
Brompheniramine and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for brompheniramine: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadSmall, occasional doses of brompheniramine would not be expected to cause any adverse effects in breastfed infants. Larger doses or more prolonged use may cause effects in the infant or decrease the milk supply, particularly in combination with a sympathomimetic such as pseudoephedrine or before lactation is well established. Single bedtime doses after the last feeding of the day may be adequate for many women and will minimize any effects of the drug. The nonsedating antihistamines are preferred alternatives.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, record revised September 15, 2025. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about brompheniramine
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 270 reports naming brompheniramine, and the FDA flagged 57% of those reports as serious. The effects reported most often — leaving out reports about overdose, misuse or the condition being treated, which dominate the raw list for common medicines:
- fatigue22 reports
- diarrhoea21 reports
- headache20 reports
- nausea19 reports
- arthralgia17 reports
- pneumonia17 reports
- dyspnoea15 reports
- anxiety14 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean brompheniramine caused the effect — anyone can file one, and many describe people taking several medicines for several conditions. Crucially there is no denominator: FAERS does not record how many people took the drug, so these counts cannot be turned into “X% of patients” — a bigger number often just means a more widely used or more talked-about drug. Duplicates exist, and publicity drives reporting. For what is actually established, read the FDA label.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved August 25, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Can you take brompheniramine with other medicines?
It depends on the medicine. We check it against the FDA labels rather than guessing: our interaction checker searches each drug's own label for the other and quotes what it says, naming the section it came from. Run brompheniramine against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
What brand names is brompheniramine sold under?
We track 3 brompheniramine-containing products in the U.S.: Brompheniramine Maleate, Dimetane and Dimetane-Ten. They are the same active ingredient; they differ in form, manufacturer, price and FDA recall record.
What forms does brompheniramine come in?
Across the brands we track, brompheniramine is currently marketed as tablet, capsule and injectable, per the FDA's National Drug Code Directory. Each form is dosed differently — follow the label for the exact product you were prescribed.
Is there a generic brompheniramine?
Yes. Our catalog lists 1 generic brompheniramine product alongside the brand versions. A generic has the same active ingredient and must meet the FDA's bioequivalence standard; it usually costs less. Ask your pharmacist which one your plan covers.
Cite this page
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- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Brompheniramine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/brompheniramine
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- “Brompheniramine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/brompheniramine.
We summarise public FDA and NIH sources — for a clinical claim, cite the primary source we link to as well.
Sources: FDA openFDA drug label, National Drug Code Directory, and Enforcement (recall) database. This page reproduces public FDA data and is not medical advice. Dosing is set by your prescriber.
Read the full FDA label for brompheniramine on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.