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n. - A drug used to control or stop diarrhea.

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  • … Brought to you by a company that specializes in OTC antidiarrheal preparations.
  • Aluminum silicate Also called kaolin, this clay mineral was the "kao" in antidiarrheal Kaopectate until 1989.
  • From a global public health view, it is possible that ORT is nothing more than a palliative until research produces effective antidiarrheal vaccines.
  • An HIV-infected child, in the lap of his dying mother, antidiarrheal medicine mixing with tears on a small face that had no power to grasp the scale of the tragedy...
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