The use of bethanechol chloride with tricyclic antidepressants
- 1 November 1975
- journal article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 132 (11) , 1202-1204
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.11.1202
Abstract
The author describes the use of bethanechol chloride to relieve side effects, including salivary inactivation, constipation, and bladder inhibition, which result from the anticholinergic action of tricyclic antidepressants. He suggests that the use of cholinergic medication during antidepressant therapy may extend the use of the tricyclics to patients who find anticholinergic side effects especially troublesome.Keywords
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