Hello steemians,how are you all? Today i would like to tell about a drug and it's use to you.
Drug name is -
Racecadotril
How it acts?
Before going to know its action we need to understand what happens in our body regularly.
In our body there is an opiod called endogeonous opiod known as Enkephalin. Enkephalin action is decreasing gut motility and it is metabolised by enkephalinase enzyme rapidly.thats why we won't encounter constipation.
In acute diarrhea cases, there is loss of water and electolytes from our GIT and there is increase in GI motility.so here, Racecadotril inhibits enkephalinase enzyme so that enkephalin spared i.e., it is not metabolised and its amount will be high and will do its normal action like reducing GI motility,inhibits secretion of water and electolytes.
So in this way it acts as anti diarrheal agent in acute cases of diarrhea.
So u can use it as anti -diarrheal agent.
Thanks for reading,
yours @summisimeon