What is Lactulose?
Lactulose is a laxative drug taken as an oral syrup and used to treat constipation. It is also used in the prevention and treatment of portal-systemic encephalopathy, a neuropsychiatric syndrome associated with liver disease.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Bowel problems | 10 |
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3 | |||
| Other | 4 |
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1 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Other
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1 | 100% |
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Patient Evaluations
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- Gypsy
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- Gypsy
- 2 10g/15mL as needed
- since Aug 20, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Bowel problems
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips My Internist says Lactulose works well because your body doesn't get dependent on it like if it was a laxitive. That's good right? My dosage changes; it's ... See full evaluation
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- Sudds Wife
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: mild
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- Sudds Wife
- 15ml as needed
- since Jul 18, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Bowel problems
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Side Effects
None
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See all 3 patient evaluations
Report created on November 23, 2009.