Overdose of Dicycloverine in details
Symptoms: headache, dizziness, nausea, dry mouth, difficulty in swallowing, dilated pupils and hot dry skin. Management: treatment is symptomatic. Reduce drug absorption by emetics or gastric lavage.
Dicycloverine warnings
Dicycloverine may produce drowsiness or blurred vision. The patient should be warned not to engage in activities requiring mental alertness, such as operating a motor vehicle or other machinery or to perform hazardous work while taking this drug.
Dicycloverine is contraindicated in infants less than 6 months of age and in nursing mothers..
In the presence of a high environmental temperature, heat prostration can occur with drug use (fever and heat stroke due to decreased sweating).
If symptoms occur the drug should be discontinued and a physician contacted.
Dicycloverine precautions
Hepatic or renal disease, urinary retention, paralytic ileus, hyperthyroidism, hypertension, congestive heart failure, cardiac tachyarrhythmia, children, elderly, pregnancy.
References
- DrugBank. "dicyclomine". http://www.drugbank.ca/drugs/DB00804 (accessed September 17, 2018).
- MeSH. "Parasympatholytics". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/68... (accessed September 17, 2018).
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Information checked by Dr. Sachin Kumar, MD Pharmacology
