Osmotic Laxative

Established Pharmacologic Class (EPC) Comparison, United States, 2020

Total Prescriptions in (2020)

Drug Name	Total Prescriptions (2020)	Percent Share
Magnesium Salts	2,384,021	41.2%
Polyethylene Glycol 3350	2,069,530	35.7%
Polyethylene Glycol 3350 With Electrolytes	743,833	12.8%
Lactulose	424,980	7.3%
Anhydrous Citric Acid; Magnesium Oxide; Sodium Picosulfate	140,974	2.4%
Sodium Phosphate, Dibasic, Anhydrous; Sodium Phosphate, Monobasic, Monohydrate	15,845	0.3%
Aluminum Hydroxide; Dimethicone; Magnesium Hydroxide	11,072	0.2%

Total Prescriptions by Drug Over Time

Drug Class Prescribing Trends Over Time

Prescription data source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) 2013-2020. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Rockville, MD. ClinCalc DrugStats Database version 2022.08. Read more about the ClinCalc DrugStats database.

All ClinCalc DrugStats figures and graphs on this page are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Updated Sep 12, 2021

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