| cholestyramine |
(Questran?-a drug taken to absorb excessive amounts of bile acid reaching the large intestine, and hence to treat certain forms of diarrhoea.
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| cholestyramine |
A bile salt ion-exchange resin which removes bile acids from the body. It can also be used as an antidiarrheal agent.
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| cholestyramine |
Medication categorized as a resin which acts like a
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| cholestyramine r. |
[USP] a strongly basic anion exchange resin in the chloride form, consisting of styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer with quaternary ammonium functional groups, having an affinity for bile acids, which it binds into an insoluble complex that is excreted in the feces, resulting in elimination of bile acids from the enterohepatic circulation and in increased oxidation of cholesterol to bile acids; administered orally as adjunctive therapy to diet in the management of patients with elevated cholesterol due to familial hyperlipoproteinemia, type IIa (patients with pure hypercholesterolemia), for the relief of pruritus associated with cholestasis occurring in partial biliary obstruction, and to treat diarrhea due to excess bile acids in the colon.
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