What is Promethazine?
Promethazine is an antiemetic and antihistamine. It is used to relieve the symptoms of allergic reactions, nausea, motion sickness. It is also use as a sedative, as adjunctive therapy for postoperative pain, anesthetic and anaphylactic reactions.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Nausea | 41 |
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2 | |||
| Other | 18 |
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1 | ||||
| Migraine Headaches | 3 |
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1 | ||||
| Severe vomiting | 3 | 0 | |||||
| Support another treatment | 3 | 0 | |||||
| Vertigo | 3 | 0 |
See all 64 patients currently taking Promethazine
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Promethazine. See all 19 dosages ►
| 10mg as needed | 12.5mg as needed | 1 as needed | 20mg as needed | 25 mg/5 mL as needed | 25 mg as needed | 25mg as needed | 25mg/mL as needed | 3 25mg as needed | 50 mg as needed | 50mg as needed | 50mg/mL as needed | mg as needed | 50 mg monthly | 12.5 mg daily | 25 mg daily | 50 mg daily | 75 mg daily | 150 mg daily | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Course of treatment ended
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8 | 73% |
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Doctor's advice
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3 | 27% |
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Did not seem to work
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2 | 18% |
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Other
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1 | 9% |
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Patient Evaluations
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- HopeLives
- Sex: F
- Flare-up: Moderate
- Sensation: None
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: none
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: moderate
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- HopeLives
- 12.5mg as needed
- since Oct 24, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Motion sickness
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Side Effects
None
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- syl
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: none
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: moderate
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- syl
- 25mg as needed
- since Nov 11, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Bowel problems
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Side Effects
None
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Report created on November 22, 2009.