Dangerous Drugs & Medical Devices

Metaclopramide

Metaclopramide (sold as Reglan, Octamide, and Maxolon) is a drug which increases the stomach’s ability to empty digested food and move it on to the small intestine. The FDA advises that patients should not be kept on metaclopramide for more than three months. Longer periods of use increase the risk of Tardive Dyskinesia (“TD”), is serious neurological disorder characterized by involuntary body movements such lip smacking, tongue thrusting, eye blinking and bulging, head jerking, facial grimacing, puckering and pursing of the lips, and involuntary movements of the fingers, as though the patient were playing an invisible piano. The uncontrollable movements are continuous, stopping only when the person sleeps. Tardive Dyskinesia may persist for months, even years after metoclopramide has been discontinued, and is usually not reversible. There is no known treatment for TD.

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