Description

Questra Cholestramine for Oral Suspension

Each sachet contains 4 g anhydrous colestyramine (a basic anion-exchange resin).

Excipients with known effect:

Each sachet contains 3.79 g sucrose (421 mg of sucrose per gram of powder), and 97.5 mg propylene glycol (as alginate).

Questra is used for:

1. Primary prevention of coronary heart disease in men between 35 and 59 years of age and with primary hypercholesterolaemia who have not responded to diet and other appropriate measures.

2. Reduction of plasma cholesterol in hypercholesterolaemia, particularly in those patients who have been diagnosed as Fredrickson’s Type II (high plasma cholesterol with normal or slightly elevated triglycerides).

3. Relief of pruritus associated with partial biliary obstruction and primary biliary cirrhosis.

4. Relief of diarrhoea associated with ileal resection, Crohn’s disease, vagotomyand diabetic vagal neuropathy.

5. Management of radiation-induced diarrhoea.

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