Sentences with phrase «use cholestyramine»

If you use cholestyramine use a very low dose, you don't want to lower serum cholesterol.

They then conducted what went down in history as the Coronary Primary Prevention Trial, successfully lowering the risk of heart disease using cholestyramine, a drug that increases the conversion of cholesterol to bile acids.

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You can improve excretion of such toxins by using bile - or fat - binding supplements like activated charcoal, bentonite clay, or cholestyramine.

Bile acid sequestrant drugs that are used for high cholesterol (cholestyramine, colestipol, colesevelam) may reduce the liver's reabsorption of bile from the gut and may reduce the absorption of thyroid medication

(ref) Cholestyramine is one of a group of medications called bile acid sequestrants used in human medicine to lower cholesterol - but also to treat the itching that commonly occurs in chronic liver disease in humans.

One of the major used of cholestyramine by physicians is to relieve the itch that is sometimes associated with reduced bile flow in pregnancy.