Succinylcholine/Metoclopramide Interactions
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Moderate. These medicines may cause some risk when taken together. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
When these two medicines are taken together, your body may not process succinylcholine properly.
What might happen:
The effects of succinylcholine on your breathing may increase or last longer.
What you should do about this interaction:
Succinylcholine is used during surgical procedures or in a hospital. If you are to have either inpatient or outpatient surgery, or are to be admitted to the hospital, make sure that all healthcare professionals are aware of all the different medicines that you are taking. This includes prescription and non-prescription medicine, herbal drugs, and nutraceuticals.If these two medicines are given together you should have your breathing monitored very closely while taking them.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
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