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Docusate is the common chemical and pharmaceutical name of the anion bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate, also commonly called dioctyl sulfosuccinate (DOSS). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Salts of this anion, especially docusate sodium , are widely used in medicine as an emollient laxative and as stool softeners , by mouth or rectally. [ 1 ]
Some laxatives combine more than one active ingredient, and may be administered orally or rectally. Types ... Examples: Docusate (Colace, Diocto), Gibs-Eze [3]
Senna glycoside, also known as sennoside or senna, is a medication used to treat constipation and empty the large intestine before surgery. [1] [5] The medication is taken by mouth or via the rectum.
The active ingredient was changed when the product was renamed in 1959, to be the laxative bisacodyl; the original active ingredients were purported to be 1 ⁄ 4 grain (16 mg) of aloe and 0.062 grains (4.0 mg) podophyllum resin.
Its ingredients include figs and dried senna pods, both known for their laxative properties, as well as water, sugar and lemon. [1] The syrup was invented in 1879 by Richard E. Queen [ 2 ] and immediately sold to the California Fig Syrup Company of Reno, Nevada, which manufactured and marketed it thereafter.
Colace is the trade name for Docusate, the pharmaceutical compound dioctyl sulfosuccinate (DOSS), a laxative. Colace may also refer to: People.
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Sodium citrate saline is one of the most effective osmotic laxatives (secondary in action only to magnesium citrate). [8] Its laxative action is the result of osmotic imbalance that extracts bound water from stool and pulls it back into the large bowel.