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All right, so let's get into the drug of the day today, and that is Phanasopyridine.

I've had a couple of people ask me about this in the past, so I wanted to cover it definitely and give my thoughts on the drug.

But just a little bit of a basic background brand name.

You'll hear patients refer to the drug as Azo.

Occasionally I have heard the older brand name, Pyridium as well.

And this medication does kind of scare me a little bit for medical purposes.

So this drug is used for urinary pain relief.

So patients having difficulty, painful type urination,

and the drug is classified as a urinary analgesic basically.

Mechanistically, it's really not well understood how it helps with that other than it's

suspected to provide some sort of analgesic or anesthetic type action on the urinary tract.

Again, not really well understood on that mechanism of action.

Dosing of this medication, we're typically going to give this with food,

usually dose a tablet or two, up to three times per day. And the reason why

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