Laxative Abuse Cessation Leading to Severe Edema

Stimulant laxatives are a common class of laxatives that is abused by patients with eating disorders. We present a case of a 30-year-old female who presented with dyspnea, peripheral edema and weight gain who had been chronically using laxatives. Her symptoms were consistent with rebound edema cause...

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Autores principales: Ragunathan, Aditya, Singh, Pratishtha, Gosal, Kiranpreet, Scibelli, Nicolina, Collier, Victor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8299158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34322337
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15847
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author Ragunathan, Aditya
Singh, Pratishtha
Gosal, Kiranpreet
Scibelli, Nicolina
Collier, Victor
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description Stimulant laxatives are a common class of laxatives that is abused by patients with eating disorders. We present a case of a 30-year-old female who presented with dyspnea, peripheral edema and weight gain who had been chronically using laxatives. Her symptoms were consistent with rebound edema caused by sodium and free water shifts with abrupt cessation of excessive stimulant laxative use. This case highlights the use of furosemide as the mainstay treatment for rebound edema and weight gain.
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spelling pubmed-82991582021-07-27 Laxative Abuse Cessation Leading to Severe Edema Ragunathan, Aditya Singh, Pratishtha Gosal, Kiranpreet Scibelli, Nicolina Collier, Victor Cureus Internal Medicine Stimulant laxatives are a common class of laxatives that is abused by patients with eating disorders. We present a case of a 30-year-old female who presented with dyspnea, peripheral edema and weight gain who had been chronically using laxatives. Her symptoms were consistent with rebound edema caused by sodium and free water shifts with abrupt cessation of excessive stimulant laxative use. This case highlights the use of furosemide as the mainstay treatment for rebound edema and weight gain. Cureus 2021-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8299158/ /pubmed/34322337 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15847 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ragunathan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Ragunathan, Aditya
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Gosal, Kiranpreet
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Collier, Victor
Laxative Abuse Cessation Leading to Severe Edema
title Laxative Abuse Cessation Leading to Severe Edema
title_full Laxative Abuse Cessation Leading to Severe Edema
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title_full_unstemmed Laxative Abuse Cessation Leading to Severe Edema
title_short Laxative Abuse Cessation Leading to Severe Edema
title_sort laxative abuse cessation leading to severe edema
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8299158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34322337
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15847
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