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Chapter 8- Gastrointestinal Drugs

 

Textbook: Understanding Pharmacology for Health Professionals Fifth Edition

 

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Review Questions

 

Describe the therapeutic effect of H2 blocker drugs.

 

What meaning did the drug companies want to convey when they selected these drug trade names?

 

Antivert

Asacol

Pepto-Bismol

Tagamet

 

How do the therapeutic effects of antacid drugs, H2 blocker drugs, proton pump inhibitor drugs, and sucralfate (Carafate) differ from each other in treating peptic ulcer disease?

 

What trade name drug is known by patients as “the purple pill”?

 

Describe why anticholinergic drugs are useful in treating gastrointestinal spasms associated with irritable bowel syndrome and other GI diseases.

 

Explain why narcotic drugs are useful in treating diarrhea.

 

Name five categories of laxative drugs, describe their therapeutic effects, and give examples of drugs in those categories.

 

Describe how aminosalicylic acid drugs are used to treat ulcerative colitis.

 

Describe the therapeutic effects of drugs used to treat motion sickness and vertigo.

 

Name two categories of drugs used to treat obesity and describe their therapeutic effects.

 

What is the meaning of these abbreviations? HB, AC, AR.

 

What drug category has generic drugs that end in -tidine? In -prazole? In -salazide?

 

What are the four trade names mentioned in this chapter for the generic drug mesalamine?

 

To what category of drugs dose each of these drugs belong and what disease is it used to treat?

 

Cimetidine (Tagamet)
Docusate (colace, surfak)
Lomotil
Mesalamine (asacol, canasa, pentasa, rowasa)
Loperamide (Imodium A-D)
Lubiprostone (Amitiza)
Mylanta
Nizatidine (Axid)
Omeprazole (Prilosec)
Orlistat (Alli, Xenical)
Prochlorperazine (compazine)
Ranitidine (zantac)
Scopolamine (transderm-scop)
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