Imodium is a medication that can be used to treat dogs with diarrhea. Imodium is actually a brand name for a drug called Loperamide. It works by slowing down movement in the intestines, allowing the ...

Loperamide, the over-the-counter antidiarrheal medication, is in the news. A recent paper in the Annals of Emergency Medicine documents two loperamide-induced deaths, [1] and loperamide-associated ...

In its ongoing effort to stem misuse and abuse of loperamide (Imodium, Johnson & Johnson), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved changes to the packaging for brand-name, ...

Loperamide misuse and abuse has been a growing problem in the US prompting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to limit the number of doses in OTC packages either through the use of blister packs ...

Acute: Initially 4mg, then 2mg after each loose stool; max 16mg/day. Stop after 48 hours if ineffective. Chronic: initially 4mg; maintenance 4–8mg/day. Reevaluate if no improvement after 10 days at ...

Also realizing that the patient of purchases of loperamide are made online in other, Gottlieb stated that he also has to reach out to the the online exposes and ask them to cooperate as well. The ...

Loperamide may end up behind the pharmacy counter in the near future because opiate junkies are getting high by using up to pills at a time. Frankly, that scares me because I rely on their low-cost ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Granules India Limited received FDA approval of its abbreviated new drug application for loperamide ...

A common drug that is usually prescribed to treat diarrhea may also be a powerful weapon against an aggressive type of brain cancer, suggests a new study published in the journal Autophagy. Loperamide ...

Sure, we have many diarrhea jokes. But the reality is that diarrhea kills 2,195 children every day—more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. Diarrheal diseases lead to 1 in 9 child deaths ...