Stroke constipation

Sibutramine is more effective than placebo with the most significant weight loss during the first 6 months of use. Dry mouth, anorexia, insomnia, constipation, increased appetite, dizziness, and nausea occur two to three times more often than with placebo. Sibutramine should not be used in patients with coronary artery disease, stroke, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, or monoamine oxidase inhibitor use. 

MAOIs frequently are not the first choice when an antidepressant is needed. This is because their side effects include sedation, dizziness, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, rapid heartbeat, constipation, and agitation. Severe sudden elevation of blood pressure, especially when the patient eats aged meats and cheeses, or takes some over-the-counter cold medications, poses a serious threat of a stroke or other symptoms including headache, vomiting, and palpitations. 

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There is no clear evidence that any particular dose of aspirin is more effective than others. However, the symptoms of aspirin toxicity, such as dyspepsia and constipation, are dose related, so the smallest effective dose should be used. A starting dosage of 150-300 mg per day is advised for the acute phase of ischemic stroke followed by longterm treatment with 75-150 mg per day. Patients intolerant of aspirin should be treated with clopidogrel if available, or if not with dipyridamole. These newer agents cost significantly more than aspirin. The use of combination antiplatelet therapy is discussed further in Ch. 24. 

A series of article abstracts about various magnesium-deficiency symptoms, syndromes, conditions, or diseases are supplied at http //www.mgwa-ter.com/abstract.shtml. These include the following alcohol-related hypertension and strokes, alcohol-induced contraction of cerebral arteries, amyofrophic lateral sclerosis and aluminum deposition in the central nervous system, cardiac arrhythmias, asthma therapy, attention deficit disorder (ADD), cerebral artery disorders, constipation, diabetes, heart muscle disorders or myocardial infarction, hypertension, HIV, kidney stones, menopause, migraine, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, and premenstrual syndrome. In all cases, an increase in magnesium levels had beneficial effects. 

Tegaserod [9], a 5-HT4 agonist, was launched in the market in 2004 for the management of IBS and constipation. Three years later, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested that Novartis withdraw tegaserod from shelves due to concerns over increased risks of heart attack or stroke. However, tegaserod is stiU available in many countries across the world (see footnote 1). 

Antipsychotics and antimuscarinics are very often given together advantageously and uneventfully, but occasionally serious and even life-threatening interactions occur. These include heat stroke in hot and humid conditions, severe constipation and adynamic ileus, and atropine-like psychoses. Antimuscarinics used to... 

The use of antipsyehoties with antimusearinies can result in a generalised, low grade, but not usually serious, additive inerease in the antimuscarinic effects of these drugs (blurred vision, dry mouth, constipation, difficulty in urination, see Antimusearinies + Antimusearinies , p.674). However, sometimes serious intensifieation takes plaee. For the sake of clarity these have been subdivided here into (a) heat stroke, (b) constipation and adynamic ileus, (e) atropine-like psyehoses, (d) antagonism of antipsychotic effects and (e) miscellaneous effeets. 

Paralytic ileum was reported in an 85-year-old man who had been taking a tea with senna leaf and fruit (with licorice, mallow, fennel, "balum," and caraway) every other day for 2 months. At the time the condition was diagnosed, the man was being hospitalized for transitory ischemic stroke. He had a history of high blood pressure, chronic obstructive bronchopneumopathy, and cholelithiasis, and a 5-year history of constipation, for which lactulose, bisacodyl, and sodium picosulfate were taken, with enemas used every 15 to 30 days (Sossai et al. 2007). 

Symptoms and indications Painful impediment caused by wind-dampness, hemiplegia caused by wind-stroke, hypertonicity of the sinews and vessels, sore pain in joint and bone, dampness-heat jaundice, bone-steam ing and tidal fever, infantile malnutrition with accumulation and fever. Treatment of hepatitis, constipation, stomachic and choleretic ailments... 

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