Avoid Opioids and Anticholinergics in Patients On Eluxadoline
June 2016
You'll see a flood of ads for eluxadoline (Viberzi, vye-BUR-zee), a new Rx drug for irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea (IBS-D).
IBS-D is hard to treat...management can be more art than science.
Eluxadoline is an opioid agonist that works primarily in the gut...similar to loperamide (Imodium A-D, etc).
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