Hey all, welcome back to the real-life pharmacology podcast. I'm your host, Eric Christensen,

pharmacist. And today I'm going to cover stimulant laxatives. Now, as with any over-the-counter

product, there are a ton of different brand names and stimulant laxatives on the market.

So I obviously can't cover every single brand name that you might see out there.

However, there are two major drugs that are classified as stimulant laxatives.

And it is Bizzacotal, which is the generic name, and it is Sennicides or Sena is the other product common name.

Both these are stimulant laxatives.

Brand names you might see Sena, Sennacides,na cot uh... jerrycot xlax

uh... visicodal brand names you might see dulclax is definitely the most common

uh... i have seen

uh... various xlax products will have different ingredients in it depending upon

uh... what it's you know what's in it and what it is. So I can't stress that

enough. Obviously, hopefully, you're probably a healthcare professional listening to this.

You've really got to look at the back of that label if you absolutely want to know what's in

and over-the-counter product because these brand name

change.

There's different formulations and all that sort of stuff.

So pay attention, look at the back of the label.

If you're on a phone interacting with a patient, something like that, have them send you a picture,

have them read it off what it says on the back, which

that can be challenging sometimes too with visual difficulties and small writing, but do

the best you can to get the info off the back of the label rather than just the brand name

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