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What is Ipecac used to treat?
Homeopathically, it treats types of nausea and vomiting, especially when accompanied by complaints such as pain, bleeding (haemorrhage), asthma or bronchitis. The person who needs Ipecac will be thirstless but have profuse salivation with a clean tongue, and vomiting won’t relieve their nausea or the underlying complaint.
What are the possible side effects of ipecac (emetine)?
Chronic diarrhea, vomiting, colitis, muscle weakness, lethargy, hypothermia, impaired peripheral vascular circulation, elevated plasma CPK concentrations, cardiomyopathy, fever, hepatic and renal dysfunction, dental abnormalities, and interstitial edema have been reported. [ Ref] Each 30 mL of ipecac contains approximately 21 mg of emetine.
Is Ipecac safe to take with children?
Ipecac is LIKELY UNSAFE when used in high doses or in children under the age of one year. Children are more sensitive than adults to the side effects of ipecac. Misuse of ipecac can lead to serious poisoning, heart damage, and death.
What are the most common uses for iliipecac?
Ipecac is most commonly used to cause vomiting after suspected poisoning. It is also used for croup, severe diarrhea, and cancer, but there is no good scientific evidence to support any of these uses.
Ipecac is taken by mouth to cause vomiting after suspected poisoning. It is also used to treat bronchitis associated with croup in children, a severe kind of diarrhea (amoebic dysentery ), and cancer. Ipecac is also used as an expectorant to thin mucous and make coughing easier.
What is the ECHA code for Ipecac?
none. UNII. 62I3C8233L. ECHA InfoCard. 100.029.439. N Y. (what is this?) (verify) Syrup of ipecac ( / ˈɪpɪkæk / ), commonly referred to as ipecac, is a drug that was once widely used as an expectorant (in low doses) and a rapid-acting emetic (in higher doses). It is obtained from the dried rhizome and roots of Carapichea ipecacuanha
What is ipecac syrup made of?
By the 20th century, chemists were using alcohol to extract the alkaloids cephaeline and emetine (methylcephaeline) from ipecac root. Combined with glycerine, sugar and methylparaben, the result was a product designed to induce vomiting after exposure to poisons: syrup of ipecac (SOI). 5,9
Why has Ipecac fallen out of favor?
There are a number of reasons that ipecac has fallen out of favor. Studies have shown the sooner ipecac is taken after accidental ingestion of a poison, the greater the amount of the poison removed from the stomach through vomiting. But even when ipecac is taken immediately after ingestion of a poison, not all of the toxin is removed.