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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