PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | megacolon |
| Phenotype | C0021390|inflammatory bowel disease |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 25967540 | May precipitate toxic megacolon in inflammatory bowel disease, may delay recovery in unrecognised gastroenteritisstart with a dose of 4 mg followed by 2 mg in each deposition until normalisation of bowel; do not exceed 16 mg/d; use no longer than 2 days; may be useful in palliative care for persisting non-infectious diarrhoea. |
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