Osmotic Laxative

Established Pharmacologic Class (EPC) Comparison, United States, 2024

Total Prescriptions in (2024)

Drug Name	Total Prescriptions (2024)	Percent Share
Magnesium Salts	3,265,005	43.2%
Polyethylene Glycol 3350	2,397,385	31.7%
Polyethylene Glycol 3350 With Electrolytes	993,989	13.1%
Lactulose	500,694	6.6%
Magnesium	393,303	5.2%
Sodium Phosphate, Dibasic, Anhydrous; Sodium Phosphate, Monobasic, Monohydrate	12,003	0.2%

Total Prescriptions by Drug Over Time

Drug Class Prescribing Trends Over Time

Prescription data source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) 2014-2024. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Rockville, MD. ClinCalc DrugStats Database version 2026.08. 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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