It stimulates the para sympathetic nervous system, there by increasing the tone of the detrusor urinary muscle. This produces a strong enough contraction to initiate micturition and empty the urinary bladder.

Acute post operative and post partum non obstructive (functional) urinary retention.

Hypersensetivity to bethanechol chloride. Intestinal or urinary obstruction. Bronchial asthma, bradycardia or hypotension. CAD, epilepsy, parkinsonism, peptic ulcer, vasomotor instability.

Urinary urgency, Vasomotor response, flushing, bronchial constriction, abdominal cramps, headache.

Allergies may occur are more with s/c injections than with oral preparations.

Ganglion blocking compounds may cause severe fall in B.P.

Cholinergic drugs :  additive effect may occur.

Quinidine, procainamide :  may antheonize cholinergic effects of bethanechol.

Adults : 10-25mg  3-4 times daily either 1 hour before or  2 hours after meals (taken preferably on empty stomach).

1 hour. 

25mg tablet,  
10 tabs.  x  10 strips (100 tabs./ box)

  
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