Antidotes
Antidotes are medications given to counteract the actions of another medication or poison.
chelators antidotes and antagonists[edit | edit source]
- activated charcoal - powdered or granular carbon used for purifying by adsorption; given orally (as a slurry) it is an antidote for some kinds of poisons
- amifostine
- ammonium tetrathiomolybdate
- amyl nitrite
- asoxime chloride
- ast 120
- atipamezole
- atipamezole hydrochloride
- calcium polystyrene sulfonate
- deferasirox
- deferiprone
- desferrioxamine mesilate
- dexrazoxane
- dicobalt edetate
- fragments
- dimercaprol
- 4 dimethylaminophenol hydrochloride
- diprenorphine hydrochloride
- ditiocarb sodium
- edetic acid
- flumazenil
- fomepizole
- fuller - a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living; united states architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895 1983); united states jurist and chief justice of the united states supreme court (1833 1910)
- s earth
- glucagon - a hormone secreted by the pancreas; stimulates increases in blood sugar levels in the blood (thus opposing the action of insulin)
- glucarpidase
- glutathione
- haem derivatives
- lanthanum carbonate
- lofexidine hydrochloride
- mesna
- methionine - a crystalline amino acid containing sulfur; found in most proteins and essential for nutrition
- dl methionine
- methylthioninium chloride
- milk thistle - tall old world biennial thistle with large clasping white blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in california and south america; any of several old world coarse prickly leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil
- silibinin
- silicristin
- silidianin
- silymarin
- nalmefene
- nalmefene hydrochloride
- nalorphine - a narcotic antagonist (trade name nalline) that counteracts the effects of narcotics (especially the effects of poisoning by morphine)
- nalorphine hydrobromide
- nalorphine hydrochloride
- naloxone hydrochloride
- naltrexone - an oral antagonist against the action of opiates
- naltrexone hydrochloride
- obidoxime chloride - a chloride used as an antidote for nerve gases such as sarin or vx
- penicillamine - a drug (trade name cuprimine) used to treat heavy metal poisoning and wilson's disease and severe arthritis
- pentetic acid
- calcium trisodium pentetate
- zinc trisodium pentetate
- potassium polystyrene sulfonate
- pralidoxime
- pralidoxime chloride
- pralidoxime iodide
- pralidoxime mesilate
- pralidoxime metilsulfate
- protamine - a simple protein found in fish sperm; rich in arginine; simpler in composition than globulin or albumin; counteracts the anticoagulant effect of heparin
- protamine hydrochloride
- protamine sulfate
- prussian blue - a dark greenish blue color; any of various blue pigments
- sevelamer
- sevelamer carbonate
- sevelamer hydrochloride
- sodium calcium edetate
- sodium cellulose phosphate
- sodium edetate
- disodium edetate
- trisodium edetate
- tetrasodium edetate
- sodium fytate
- sodium nitrite - nitrite used to preserve and color food especially in meat and fish products; implicated in the formation of suspected carcinogens
- sodium polystyrene sulfonate
- sodium thiosulfate - a compound used as a fixing agent in photographic developing
- succimer
- sugammadex sodium
- tiopronin
- trientine dihydrochloride
- trimedoxime bromide
- unithiol
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