colestyramine การใช้

• Colestyramine is commonly used to treat diarrhea resulting from bile acid malabsorption.
• Colestyramine is also useful in treating post-vagotomy diarrhea.
• Colestyramine is also used in the control of other types of bile acid diarrhea.
• Colestyramine prevents this increase in water by making the bile acids insoluble and osmotically inactive.
• A case report suggests that colestyramine may be useful for cyanobacterial ( microcystin ) poisoning in dogs.
• Ointments containing colestyramine compounded with aquaphor have been used in topical treatment of diaper rash in infants and toddlers.
• Other drugs should be taken at least one hour before or four to six hours after colestyramine to reduce possible interference with absorption.
• Colestyramine may interfere in the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamins K . No special considerations regarding alcohol consumption are made.
• Colestyramine removes bile acids from the body by forming insoluble complexes with bile acids in the intestine, which are then excreted in the feces.
• Colestyramine can be helpful in the treatment of " Clostridium difficile " infections, to absorb toxins A and B, and reduce the diarrhea and the other symptoms these toxins cause.
• The primary, idiopathic form of bile acid diarrhea is a common cause of chronic functional diarrhea, often misdiagnosed as diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome ( IBS-D ), and most of these patients respond to colestyramine.