Movers and shakers: A clinician's guide to laxatives

Pediatric Annals

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 307-310

  Lowe, Julie R ^a   Parks Jr , Bruce R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISACODYL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CASCARA; CASTOR OIL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOCUSATE SODIUM; GLYCEROL; IRON DERIVATIVE; ISPAGULA; LACTULOSE; LAXATIVE; MAGNESIUM CITRATE; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; METHYLCELLULOSE; MINERAL OIL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE AGONIST; PHENOLPHTHALEIN; POLYCARBOPHIL; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VINCA ALKALOID;

AGE; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; NAUSEA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PROCTITIS; RECTAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REVIEW; SENNA; VOMITING;

EID: 0032895680     PISSN: 00904481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/0090-4481-19990501-10     Document Type: Review

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