PMID: 11328252May 1, 2001Paper

Review article: erythromycin as a prokinetic agent in infants and children

Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
J I CurryM D Stringer

Abstract

Erythromycin has been used as an antibiotic for more than four decades, but only in the last 10 years have other therapeutic benefits of this agent been exploited. Animal and human studies have demonstrated a prokinetic effect on the gastrointestinal tract at sub-antimicrobial doses (typically a quarter or less of the antibiotic dose). A limited number of studies have been performed in children to investigate this action. A review of this literature is particularly pertinent given the frequency of clinical problems related to gastrointestinal dysmotility in children and the limited availability of prokinetic agents in paediatric practice, compounded by the recent withdrawal of cisapride. The prokinetic effects of erythromycin have been investigated in infants with dysmotility associated with prematurity, in low birth-weight infants recovering from abdominal surgery, and in older children with a variety of other gastrointestinal disorders. Only one randomized placebo-controlled trial has been conducted. All except one of these studies have shown a beneficial effect of erythromycin in either promoting tolerance of enteral feeds or enhancing a measured index of gastrointestinal motility. Erythromycin appears to be equally effectiv...Continue Reading

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