Colace and Senna BAD drugs???

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Has anyone heard of this before? Recently one of the MD's who helps out, started D/C'ing colace and senna from every patient who had it profiled. Apparently he went to a conference recently, and colace and senna are now evil drugs that will do irreparable harm to anyone unfortunate enough to be on them. I have searched high and low, far and wide, and cannot come up with anything to support this argument. Every other dr. prescribes them, and none have said anything about them being harmful, or even potentially harmful when taken as prescribed. He never gave a valid reason for this, just that they are no longer good. They replaced them with miralax and amitiza for everyone.

Funny, the place I work at is Rx all our new pt's Miralax too! However no Dc's yet on the old pt's senna or colace.

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Specializes in Telemetry/Cardiac Floor.

Yeah I mean, I'm not sure about Docusate Na+, but Senekot is made from Senna that is actually an herbal or natural ingredient. They sell Senna at health food stores.

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Has anyone heard of this before? Recently one of the MD's who helps out, started D/C'ing colace and senna from every patient who had it profiled. Apparently he went to a conference recently, and colace and senna are now evil drugs that will do irreparable harm to anyone unfortunate enough to be on them. I have searched high and low, far and wide, and cannot come up with anything to support this argument. Every other dr. prescribes them, and none have said anything about them being harmful, or even potentially harmful when taken as prescribed. He never gave a valid reason for this, just that they are no longer good. They replaced them with miralax and amitiza for everyone.

ask the doc for the citations that support his view of colace and senna

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amitiza 60 pills = $244 to 333

:eek:

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Specializes in ER.
um...check the price of mirilaz and amitiza....wow.

Never heard they were bad,

That conference the doc went to...was it possibly sponsored by a drug company?

He's old enough not to fall for that crap.

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amitiza 60 pills = $244 to 333

hmmm......

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