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The procedure is to take the child's weight in pounds, divide by 150 lb, and multiply the fractional result by the adult dose to find the equivalent child dosage.For example, if an adult dose of medication calls for 30 mg and the child weighs 30 lb, divide the weight by 150 (30/150) to obtain 1/5 and multiply 1/5 times 30 mg to get 6 mg.
Loratadine, sold under the brand name Claritin among others, is a medication used to treat allergies. [5] This includes allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and hives . [ 5 ] It is also available in drug combinations such as loratadine/pseudoephedrine , in which it is combined with pseudoephedrine , a nasal decongestant . [ 5 ]
Lansoprazole, sold under the brand name Prevacid among others, is a medication which reduces stomach acid. [4] It is a proton pump inhibitor (PPI), used to treat peptic ulcer disease , gastroesophageal reflux disease , and Zollinger–Ellison syndrome . [ 5 ]
This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes).This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).
They are also structurally related to the tricyclic antidepressants (and tetracyclics), explaining the H 1-antihistaminergic adverse effects of those three drug classes and also the poor tolerability profile of tricyclic H 1-antihistamines. The second-generation H 1-antihistamine loratadine was derived from compounds in this group. Promethazine
Desloratadine sold under the brand name Clarinex among others, is a tricyclic H 1 inverse agonist that is used to treat allergies.It is an active metabolite of loratadine. [6]It was patented in 1984 and came into medical use in 2001. [7]
A Clarinase Repetab tablet contains 5 mg loratadine in the tablet coating and 120 mg pseudoephedrine sulfate equally distributed between the tablet coating and the barrier-coated core. The two active components in the coating are quickly liberated; release of pseudoephedrine in the core is delayed for several hours.
[22] [23] The drug is also commonly described as possessing weak anticholinergic activity by acting as an antagonist of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. The dextrorotatory stereoisomer , dexchlorpheniramine , has been reported to possess K d values of 15 nM for the H 1 receptor and 1,300 nM for the muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in ...