loperamide
/ləʊˈpɛrəmʌɪd
/noun [mass noun] Medicine
A synthetic drug of the opiate class which inhibits peristalsis and is used to treat diarrhoea.Effective antidiarrhoeal drugs such as loperamide and diphenoxylate can be used when necessary....
- Empiric treatment of traveler's diarrhea with antibiotics and loperamide is effective and often limits symptoms to one day.
- But treatment with an antibiotic and loperamide often can cure you within 24 hours.
Origin
1970s: probably from (ch)lo(ro-) + (pi)per(idine) + amide.