Stomach and bowels
Antidiarrheals
Used for
Diarrhea
How it works
Slow the bowel down (loperamide) or calm the irritation behind diarrhea (bismuth).
- Examples
- loperamide (Imodium)
- bismuth subsalicylate (Pepto-Bismol)
More in stomach and bowels
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