Succinylsulfathiazole

Succinylsulfathiazole is a sulfonamide. It is also spelled as succinylsulphathiazole. It is a white or yellow-white crystalline powder. It dissolves in aqueous solutions of alkali hydroxides and carbonates but is very slightly soluble in water.

It is classified as ultra long acting drug. About 95% of the drug remains in the intestine and only 5% is hydrolyzed, slowly, to Sulfathiazole and is absorbed.

The drug is used for its antibacterial activity in the GIT. The dose is 10g - 20g daily in divided doses.


Antidiarrheals, intestinal anti-inflammatory/anti-infective agents (A07)
Rehydration
  • Oral rehydration therapy
Intestinal anti-infectives
  • Antibiotics
    • Amphotericin B
    • Colistin
    • Fidaxomicin
    • Kanamycin
    • Natamycin
    • Neomycin
    • Nystatin
    • Paromomycin
    • Polymyxin B
    • Rifaximin
    • Streptomycin
    • Vancomycin
  • Sulfonamides
    • Phthalylsulfathiazole
    • Succinylsulfathiazole
    • Sulfaguanidine
  • Nitrofuran
    • Nifuroxazide
    • Nifurzide)
  • Imidazole
    • Miconazole
  • Arsenical
    • Acetarsol
  • Oxyquinoline
    • Broxyquinoline
Intestinal adsorbents
  • Charcoal
  • Bismuth
  • Pectin
  • Kaolin
  • Crospovidone
  • Attapulgite
  • Diosmectite
Antipropulsives (opioids)
  • Opium tincture (laudanum)
  • Codeine
  • Morphine
  • Camphorated opium tincture (paregoric)
  • crosses BBB: Diphenoxylate (Diphenoxylate/atropine)
  • Difenoxin
  • does not cross BBB: Loperamide
Intestinal anti-inflammatory agents
  • corticosteroids acting locally
    • Prednisolone
    • Hydrocortisone
    • Prednisone
    • Betamethasone
    • Tixocortol
    • Budesonide
    • Beclometasone
  • antiallergic agents, excluding corticosteroids
    • Cromoglicic acid
  • aminosalicylic acid and similar agents
    • Sulfasalazine
    • Mesalazine
    • Olsalazine
    • Balsalazide
Antidiarrheal micro-organisms
  • Saccharomyces boulardii
Other antidiarrheals
  • Albumin tannate
  • Ceratonia
  • Octreotide
  • Racecadotril

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