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n. a salicylate preparation used to treat mild ulcerative colitis. Possible side-effects include nausea, vomiting, headache, joint pain, and skin rashes.
Health Source: Oxford | Concise Colour Medical Dictionary
Author: Jonathan Law, Elizabeth Martin

Sulfasalazine

A chemical combination of sulphapyridine and 5-aminosalycilic acid. It is used to treat ULCERATIVE COLITIS (valuable as oral therapy for mild symptomatic disease; also available as suppositories for rectal disease) and RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. The salicylate part is now available alone in drugs such as mesalazine and olsalazine. Several reports of blood dyscrasias from patients taking these drugs have prompted the COMMITTEE ON SAFETY OF MEDICINES (CSM) to recommend that patients with unexplained blood disorders should stop treatment and be given an immediate blood count.... sulfasalazine

Aminosalicylates

pl. n. drugs containing 5-aminosalicylic acid, used to treat ulcerative colitis (and to maintain patients in remission from it) and Crohn’s disease affecting the colon. They include *sulfasalazine, *olsalazine, and mesalazine.... aminosalicylates

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