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Diethylcarbamazine is a medication used in the treatment of filariasis including lymphatic filariasis, tropical pulmonary eosinophilia, and loiasis. [1] It may also be used for prevention of loiasis in those at high risk. [1] While it has been used for onchocerciasis (river blindness), ivermectin is preferred. [2] It is taken by mouth. [3]
Trimebutine is a drug with antimuscarinic and very weak mu opioid agonist effects. [1] It is used for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and other gastrointestinal disorders. The major product from drug metabolism of trimebutine in human beings is nortrimebutine , [ 2 ] which comes from removal of one of the methyl groups attached to the ...
This can result in tablets with non-uniform concentrations of drug or active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), resulting in uneven dosage between tablets, but granulation should prevent this. Some APIs may be compressed into tablets as pure substances, but this is rarely the case; most formulations include pharmacologically inactive ingredients ...
The contents of this page have been copied to Talk:List_of_drugs. Please put comments there. I (User:MattKingston) am in the process of creating a list of drugs and their various names. The list will be alphabetical and will use the following format (subject to change if better suggestions are put forward).
Hyoscine butylbromide, also known as scopolamine butylbromide [4] and sold under the brandname Buscopan among others, [5] is an anticholinergic medication used to treat abdominal pain, esophageal spasms, bladder spasms, biliary colic, [6] and renal colic. [7] [8] It is also used to improve excessive respiratory secretions at the end of life. [9]
Diloxanide is a medication used to treat amoeba infections. [1] In places where infections are not common, it is a second line treatment after paromomycin when a person has no symptoms. [2] For people who are symptomatic, it is used after treatment with metronidazole or tinidazole. [2] It is taken by mouth. [1] Diloxanide generally has mild ...
Because thiamine deficiency causes problems with memory and other cognitive functions, thiamine and analogs like sulbutiamine have been studied in clinical trials in the 1980s and 1990s for age-associated cognitive decline. [10] Sulbutiamine has been explored in clinical trials as a potential treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). [6]
It is sold under the brand names Lorzone, Paraflex and Muscol and in combination form as Parafon Forte, a combination of chlorzoxazone and acetaminophen (paracetamol). Possible side effects include dizziness , lightheadedness , malaise , nausea , vomiting .