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  2. Gliclazide - Wikipedia

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    Side effect may include low blood sugar, vomiting, abdominal pain, rash, and liver problems. [4] [7] Use by those with significant kidney problems or liver problems or who are pregnant is not recommended. [7] [4] Gliclazide is in the sulfonylurea family of medications. [7] It works mostly by increasing the release of insulin. [7]

  3. Disulfiram-like drug - Wikipedia

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    Unlike acetaldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitors and other disulfiram-like drugs, alcohol dehydrogenase inhibitors such as fomepizole (brand name Antizol) inhibit the metabolism of alcohol into acetaldehyde, thereby increasing and extending the effects of alcohol and reducing its toxicity. [4]

  4. Glossary of alcohol (drug) terms - Wikipedia

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    Alcohol myopia is a cognitive-physiological theory on alcohol use disorder in which many of alcohol's social and stress-reducing effects, which may underlie its addictive capacity, are explained as a consequence of alcohol's narrowing of perceptual and cognitive functioning. Alcohol packaging warning messages

  5. Antibiotic - Wikipedia

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    Interactions between alcohol and certain antibiotics may occur and may cause side effects and decreased effectiveness of antibiotic therapy. [60] [61] While moderate alcohol consumption is unlikely to interfere with many common antibiotics, there are specific types of antibiotics with which alcohol consumption may cause serious side effects. [62]

  6. Just how bad is alcohol? Eight experts weigh in on the risks ...

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    Alcohol-related deaths have climbed nationally in the past few years: The U.S. saw a 25% spike in deaths during the first year of the pandemic, a trend that particularly affected middle-aged adults.

  7. Anti-ulcer agents - Wikipedia

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    PPIs may induce common side effects including headache, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, and nausea. Taking PPI may rarely cause community-acquired pneumonia . Prolonged use of PPI may be associated with intestinal Clostridioides difficile infection , low magnesium level , Vitamin B12 and iron deficiency, osteoporosis , acute kidney inflammation, and ...

  8. Diazoxide - Wikipedia

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    Diazoxide is used as a vasodilator in the treatment of acute hypertension or malignant hypertension. [7]Diazoxide also inhibits the secretion of insulin by opening ATP-sensitive potassium channel of beta cells of the pancreas; thus, it is used to counter hypoglycemia in disease states such as insulinoma (a tumor producing insulin) [8] or congenital hyperinsulinism.

  9. List of antibiotics - Wikipedia

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    Nausea (if alcohol taken concurrently) - if contains methylthiotetrazole side group; Hypoprothrombinemia - if contains methylthiotetrazole side group; Allergic reactions; Same mode of action as other beta-lactam antibiotics: disrupt the synthesis of the peptidoglycan layer of bacterial cell walls. Cefoxitin: Cefotetan: Cefotan: Cefamandole ...