antidiarrheals

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Is a symptom of intestinal disorder

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Diarrhea

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Diarrhea

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Frequent liquid stool

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Patients with diarrhea should avoid

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Milk products and foods rich in fat

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Antidiarrheals should not used if

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Fever is present

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Also called acute diarrhea

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Traveler’s diarrhea

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Traveler’s diarhhea is usually caused by

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E.coli

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May be used to slow peristalsis and decrease the frquency of defecation

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Loperamide (imodium)

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Classifications of antidiarrheals:

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1. Opiates and opiate-related agents
2. Somatostatin analogues
3. Absorbents
4. Miscellaneous

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Decrease intestinal motility, thereby decreasing peristalsis.

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Opiates

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Is a common side effect of opium preparatione

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Constipation

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Duration of action of opiates

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Approximately 2 hours

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Frequently prescribed for traveler’s diarrhea

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Diphenoxylate with atropine (Lomotil)

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An active metabolite of diphenoxylate, but it is more potent than dihenoxylate

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Difenoxin (motofen)

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Prescribed to treat nonspecific and chronic diarrhea

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Difenoxin (motofen)

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It inhibts the secretion of many GIT hormones.

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Somatostatin analogues

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It reduces intestinal fluid secretion and pancreatic secretion

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Somatostain analogues

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Inhibit gallbladder contraction

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Somatostatin analogues

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Act by coating the wall of the GI tract and absorbing bacteria or toxins that cause diarrhea

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Absorbents

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Considered an absorbent because it absorbs bacterial toxins

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Bismuth subsalicylate (Pepto-Bismol)

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Are prescription drugs that have been used to treat diarrhea due to excess bile acids in the colon.

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Colestipol and cholestyramine (questran)

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Drug under miscellanous

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Rifaximin

Question 22

For treatment of traveler’s diarrhea caused by noninvasive strains of E.coli

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Miscellaneous: Rifaximin