Osmotic Laxative

Established Pharmacologic Class (EPC) Comparison, United States, 2023

Total Prescriptions in (2023)

Drug Name	Total Prescriptions (2023)	Percent Share
Magnesium Salts	2,903,672	37.6%
Polyethylene Glycol 3350	2,491,296	32.2%
Lactulose	966,210	12.5%
Polyethylene Glycol 3350 With Electrolytes	842,998	10.9%
Magnesium	514,376	6.7%
Anhydrous Citric Acid; Magnesium Oxide; Sodium Picosulfate	9,111	0.1%

Total Prescriptions by Drug Over Time

Drug Class Prescribing Trends Over Time

Prescription data source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) 2014-2023. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Rockville, MD. ClinCalc DrugStats Database version 2025.08. 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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