(The alluring title was in fact inspired by the name of an
antidiarrheal drug.) Initially intending to shoot the Sufi festival of Mawlid, a carnivalesque celebration drawing enormous crowds who enter ecstatic states, Calame and Schmalz wound up recording life in this loud capital mainly from the windows of some hostel or Airbnb flat, where fashion TV programs run on inexplicably heavy rotation.
If vomiting is severe, medications can reduce it, but experts advise against taking an
antidiarrheal drug such as Lomotil or Imodium, which can prolong the infection.
Group II was given
antidiarrheal drug loperamide (3 mg/kg, p.o) in suspension.
Many patients with ulcerative colitis who are receiving ineffective treatment with a salicylate also take an
antidiarrheal drug, as well as other motility-inhibiting drugs such as antiemetics or even narcotics.
Self-regulated symptomatic treatment was common: using an
antidiarrheal drug when an episode of diarrhea began or fiber and bran in response to constipation.
Information on nonprescription
antidiarrheal drug sales was requested from investigators of four outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis, which occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada; Collingwood, Ontario; Kelowna, British Columbia, and Cranbrook, British Columbia (Table 1).
Highnoon Laboratories have already successfully developed an
antidiarrheal drug out of indigenous raw material based on rice and lentils which has been acclaimed the world over.
Loperamide was developed by Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc., a Belgium-based Johnson & Johnson company that originally developed the prescription
antidiarrheal drug Lomotil.
The investigation of an epidemic of subacute myelo-optic neuropathy (SMON) in Japan during the 1960s implicated use of the
antidiarrheal drug clioquinol as a cause of the problem (8); however, the Inoue-Melnick agent--a virus not previously described--was isolated from the CSF of many patients in Japan (2), and the role of this putative virus in the etiology of SMON remains undetermined.