Acid peptic disease. Hypermotility. As adjunct in anti diarrheaic therapy.
Contraindication: What are the special precautions to be followed?
Under following conditions, use of this medication is inadvisable. Its use should be withhold as it would cause harm to the patient Tachycardia, myasthenia gravis. Toxic megacolon. Glaucoma. Pyloric obstruction. Prostatic hypertrophy.
Other Precaution to be observed while taking this medication
Driving or operating machinery. Diarrhoea may be an early sign of incomplete intestinal obstruction. Elderly patients or with chronic lung disease. Benign, prostatic hyperplasia, acute MI, cardiac failure, hypertension, thyrotoxicosis, pregnancy, lactation and children, fever, angle-closure glaucoma.
What are possible side effects of this medication ?
Blurred vision, headache, constipation, dry mouth, urine retention, drowsiness. Difficulty in talking/swallowing. Reduced bronchial secretions Arrhythmias. Confusion and giddiness.