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  2. Bisacodyl - Wikipedia

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    Bisacodyl is an organic compound that is used as a stimulant laxative drug. It works directly on the colon to produce a bowel movement. It is typically prescribed for relief of episodic and chronic constipation and for the management of neurogenic bowel dysfunction, as well as part of bowel preparation before medical examinations, such as for a colonoscopy.

  3. Dosage (pharmacology) - Wikipedia

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    Dosage typically includes information on the number of doses, intervals between administrations, and the overall treatment period. [3] For example, a dosage might be described as "200 mg twice daily for two weeks," where 200 mg represents the individual dose, twice daily indicates the frequency, and two weeks specifies the duration of treatment.

  4. Laxative - Wikipedia

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    Examples: senna, bisacodyl [3] Prolonged use of stimulant laxatives can create drug dependence by damaging the colon's haustral folds, making users less able to move feces through their colon on their own. A study of patients with chronic constipation found that 28% of chronic stimulant laxative users lost haustral folds over the course of one ...

  5. Dulcolax - Wikipedia

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    Dulcolax, a trade name of bisacodyl, a stimulant laxative drug that increases bowel movement Dulcolax Balance, a trade name of macrogol , an osmotic laxative Dulcolax Stool Softener, a trade name of dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate , a common ingredient in products such as laxatives

  6. Equianalgesic - Wikipedia

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    An equianalgesic chart can be a useful tool, but the user must take care to correct for all relevant variables such as route of administration, cross tolerance, half-life and the bioavailability of a drug. [5] For example, the narcotic levorphanol is 4–8 times stronger than morphine, but also has a much longer half-life. Simply switching the ...

  7. Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education - Wikipedia

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    OCTAE's director has the rank of Assistant Secretary and serves as the principal adviser to the Secretary of Education on matters related to high school, career technical and adult education and lifelong learning as well as community colleges, workforce and economic development. He or she also represents the Department at national and ...

  8. Instituto Nacional para la Educación de los Adultos - Wikipedia

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    The Instituto Nacional para la Educación de los Adultos (English: National Institute for Adult Education), abbreviated INEA, is a decentralized public organization of the Mexican federal public administration, grouped in the sector coordinated by the Ministry of Education Public, with legal personality and its own patrimony, created by presidential decree on August 31, 1981.

  9. Maintenance dose - Wikipedia

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    In pharmacokinetics, a maintenance dose is the maintenance rate [mg/h] of drug administration equal to the rate of elimination at steady state. This is not to be confused with dose regimen , which is a type of drug therapy in which the dose [mg] of a drug is given at a regular dosing interval on a repetitive basis.