If you're dealing with diarrhea during pregnancy, reach for Imodium. It's safe and effective. If you have blood in your diarrhea or are running a fever, don't take medications to treat the diarrhea.

Loperamide, the over-the-counter antidiarrheal medication, is in the news. A recent paper in the Annals of Emergency Medicine documents two loperamide-induced deaths, [1] and loperamide-associated ...

Loperamide, a non-prescription antidiarrhoeal with μ‐opioid receptor agonist properties, has long been considered safe when used at therapeutic doses. However, there is increasing evidence that its ...