Antipropulsive
Antidiarrhoeal drug
An antipropulsive is a drug used in the treatment of diarrhea. It does not address the underlying cause (for example, infection or malabsorption), but it does decrease motility.
Examples include diphenoxylate, loperamide, and eluxadoline.
See also
- Propulsive
References
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Antidiarrheals, intestinal anti-inflammatory and anti-infective agents (A07)
- Oral rehydration therapy
- Antibiotics
- Amphotericin B
- Colistin
- Fidaxomicin
- Kanamycin
- Natamycin
- Neomycin
- Nystatin
- Paromomycin
- Polymyxin B
- Rifaximin
- Streptomycin
- Vancomycin
- Sulfonamides
- Charcoal
- Bismuth (including bismuth subsalicylate, known as Pepto-Bismol)
- Pectin
- Kaolin
- Crospovidone
- Attapulgite
- Diosmectite
- Opium tincture (laudanum)
- Codeine
- Morphine
- Camphorated opium tincture (paregoric)
- crosses BBB: Diphenoxylate (+atropine)
- Difenoxin
- does not cross BBB: Eluxadoline
- Loperamide# (+simethicone)
- corticosteroids acting locally
- antiallergic agents, excluding corticosteroids
- #WHO-EM
- ‡Withdrawn from market
- Clinical trials:
- †Phase III
- §Never to phase III
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