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Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
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Antispasmodics (an-tee-spaz-MAW-diks)

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Definition: Medicines that help reduce or stop muscle spasms in the intestines. Examples are dicyclomine (dy-SY-klo-meen) (Bentyl) and atropine (AH-tro-peen) (Donnatal).

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Donnatal
List of side effects for this drug.

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