Oxyphenonium

Indication : Why is this medication prescribed?

Acid peptic disease. Hypermotility. As adjunct in anti diarrheaic therapy.

Contraindication: What are the special precautions to be followed?

Under following conditions, use of this medication is inadvisable. Its use should be withhold as it would cause harm to the patient
Tachycardia, myasthenia gravis. Toxic megacolon. Glaucoma. Pyloric obstruction. Prostatic hypertrophy.

Other Precaution to be observed while taking this medication

Driving or operating machinery. Diarrhoea may be an early sign of incomplete intestinal obstruction. Elderly patients or with chronic lung disease. Benign, prostatic hyperplasia, acute MI, cardiac failure, hypertension, thyrotoxicosis, pregnancy, lactation and children, fever, angle-closure glaucoma.

What are possible side effects of this medication ?

Blurred vision, headache, constipation, dry mouth, urine retention, drowsiness. Difficulty in talking/swallowing. Reduced bronchial secretions Arrhythmias. Confusion and giddiness.

Drug Category/Class

  • Muscarinic Antagonists
  • Parasympatholytics
  • Mydriatics
  • Synthetic Anticholinergics, Quaternary Ammonium Compounds
  • Alimentary Tract and Metabolism
  • Drugs for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
  • Synthetic anticholinergics, quaternary ammonium compounds
Prescribed For the treatment of visceral spasms
Weight :348.4996
Structure Oxyphenonium
Generic Drug Oxyphenonium prescribed For the treatment of visceral spasms
Formula

C21H34NO3

Oxyphenonium has 4 Brands listed


Antrenyl (5 mg)Antrenyl Duplex (10 mg)
Oxyphenonium Bromide (5 mg)Ulpane (5 mg)

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