Hey all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast.

It is a very special day last week or two that I've had.

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flashcards. All right, with that, let's get into the drug of the day today, and that is pyridostigming.

Brand name of this medication is Mestanon, and this was a request by somebody.

So just trying to do as many of those requests as I can.

I get quite a few emails, but this one kind of sent off an alarm a little bit in my head because it's a pretty rare

medication. It's not used terribly often in practice, but there's a lot of great teaching

pearls here. So with that said, pyrotostigmine mechanism of action of this medication, it is

an acetycholineasterase inhibitor.

If you remember back to some of the dementia medications like dinepazole, that has a similar

mechanism of action. So if you can do that in your preparations for studying or just, you know,

out in your day-to-day practice,

if you can lump medications together that have similar mechanisms of action,

you're probably going to be able to understand what the adverse effects are.

If you understand the side effects of one, you're going to understand the side effects for generally all medications

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