Anticholinergic Abuse

Anticholinergic Activity and Schizophrenia.

In this article, we review the downregulation of acetylcholinergic activity in schizophrenia and discuss the similarity and difference between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and schizophrenia in terms of acetylcholine (ACh) and anticholinergic activity (AA); then, we propose the use of cognition-enhancing therapy for schizophrenia. As ACh regulates an inflammatory system, when the cholinergic system ...

Anticholinergic agents in cicutoxin poisoning.

Acute anticholinergic poisoning in children.

We report two cases of unintentional poisoning with anticholinergic agents. The first patient, a 7-year-old girl, was prescribed four different medications by a general practitioner for treatment of abdominal colic and diarrhoea. All drugs had anticholinergic properties. The second patient, a 16-month-old boy, ingested his mother's cyproheptadine tablets. Both children presented with central an...

Post-operative central anticholinergic syndrome.

Central anticholinergic syndrome is defined as an abDiagnosis rests on clinical features, exclusion of other conditions, and a positive response to a solute or relative reduction in cholinergic activity in centrally acting cholinesterase inhibitor, usually the central nervous system [1]. In anaesthetic practice physostigmine [1]. the syndrome was originally described in connection The incidence...

Anticholinergic Drugs in Nonallergic Rhinitis

BACKGROUND The parasympathetic nervous system contributes to the pathophysiology of multiple forms of allergic and nonallergic rhinitis. Stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system leads to glandular activation, which produces watery secretions. In excess, these secretions discharge from the anterior Nares and produce the symptom of watery anterior rhinorrhea. METHOD Review of literatur...