Acid Related Diseases
This OTC medication is used to treat mild heartburn and GERD, but may also decrease the stomach's absorption of vitamins and minerals such as magnesium and B12.
Proton Pump Inhibitors
(Omeprazole, Pantoprazole, Lansoprazole)
The most common side effect of anti-emetic drugs
Drowsiness
This medication can be used to produce sedation and hypnosis, relieve anxiety and muscle spasms, and reduce seizures in hospitalized patients.
Benzodiazepine (Lorazepam)
These medications decrease diarrhea, soften stool, help to control diverticulosis, and promote defecation in the elderly.
Bulk forming laxatives (psyllium).
First line treatment to lower blood cholesterol levels.
Lifestyle modification (diet, exercise)
The most common adverse reaction for this common medication used to treat heartburn is hypotension.
H2 Receptor Antagonists
(Famotidine, Cimetidine,, or Ranitidine)
When used with glucocorticoids and serotonin blockers, this medication inhibits nausea and vomiting in cancer patients.
Neruokinin receptor antagonists.
This is the reversal agent for benzodiazepines.
Flumazenil
These medications are often used to combat opioid induced constipation by increasing peristalsis.
Stimulant Laxatives (Bisacodyl)
This vitamin, has lipid lowering properties, when given in high doses, but has sides effects such as flushing, pruritis, and GI distress.
Niacin (Vitamin B2, Nicotinic acid)
This medication forms a protective barrier around the stomach, preventing ulcer formation.
Sucralfate
This controversial medication can be prescribed by physicians to increase appetite in patients with muscle wasting conditions such as AIDS and cancer.
Cannabinoids (Medical marijuana)
This is the reversal agent for opioid medications.
Naloxone
This medication relieves constipation by increasing the amount of water and fat your stool absorbs.
Surfactant laxatives (Docusate sodium)
First line drug therapy to treat hypercholesterolemia
HMG-CoA Reductase inhibitors (-statins)
Patients with H. pylori may be prescribed this combination of medications to treat their condition.
Triple Therapy or Quadruple Therapy
This vesicant substance, commonly used to treat psychiatric conditions, can also be given to hospitalized patients via IV to treat severe nausea, vomiting, hiccups, migraines, and moderate to severe pain.
Phenothiazines (Compazine, Promethazine, Prochlorperazine)
These are the signs of benzodiazepine toxicity.
Sedation, anxiety, respiratory depression.
This condition causes chronic intestinal discomfort and constipation or diarrhea in females.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Tx: IBS-D: Alosetron or IBS-C: Lubiprostone
This adverse reaction of statins leads to the breakdown of muscle protein and urinary elimination of myoglobin, causing muscle soreness and changes of color in the urine.
Rhabdomyolysis
This medication may be used off-label to induce the termination of pregnancy, but its primary indication is to prevent gastric ulcers.
Prostaglandin E Analog (Misoprostol)
This common complication of dopamine antagonist medication use, like metoclopramide, can cause hypotension, xerostomia, urinary retention, and tardive dyskinesia.
Extrapyramidal Symptoms (EPS)
Caution should be used when giving antiemetics for patients that are status post surgical procedure for this reason.
Antiemetics interact with benzodiazepines and opioids. Prepare to give proper reversal agent.
This intestinal flora modifier uses bacterial cultures to supply missing bacteria to GI tract while suppressing growth of diarrhea causing bacteria.
Lactobacillus (L. acidophilus)
This medication lowers triglyceride, total cholesterol, and LDL levels while raising the HDL.
Fibrates (gemfibrozil, fenofibrate)