Antidiarrhoeal



An antidiarrhoeal drug is any medication which provides symptomatic relief for diarrhoea.

Types

  • salts in acute cases.
  • Bulking agents like guar gum or plant fibre (bran, sterculia, ispaghul, etc.) are used for diarrhoea in functional bowel disease and to control ileostomy output.
  • Absorbents absorb toxic substances that cause infective diarrhoea, methylcellulose is an absorbent as well.
  • side effects.

See also

v • d • e
Antihistamines
v • d • e
Antidiarrheals, intestinal Rifaximin)

Sulfonamides (Phthalylsulfathiazole, Sulfaguanidine, Succinylsulfathiazole)

other (Beclometasone)

antiallergic agents, excluding corticosteroids (Cromoglicic acid)

Balsalazide)
Antidiarrheal micro-organismsSaccharomyces boulardii
Other antidiarrhealsAlbumin tannate - Ceratonia - Racecadotril
 
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