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Antiemetic treatment of nausea and vomit

Antidiarrheal drugs

 Loperamide

 Colloidal bismuth compounds

 Pectin and Kaolin absorbent compounds

Loperamide

Activate opioid mu receptors  decrease tone of longitudinal
muscles.

Colloidal bismuth compounds

Subsalicylate and citrate salts  effective in travellers’ diarrhoea

Pectin and Kaolin  absorbent compounds

Laxatives

Mg(OH) and other nonabsorbant s
2

Bulk forming compds  methyl cellulose and psyllium

Stool surfactants  mineral oils

Stimulants  cenna

chloride channel activators lubiprostone

Opiod receptor inhibitors

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Pharmacology Mnemonics and Short Notes By Muhammad Ramzan Ul Rehman