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Osmotic diuretics

Osmotic diuretics cause diuresis through osmosis, moving fluid into the extracellular spaces. They include mannitol and urea.

Osmotic diuretics

 

Osmotic diuretics cause diuresis through osmosis, moving fluid into the extracellular spaces. They include mannitol and urea.

Pharmacokinetics

 

Administered I.V. for rapid distribution, osmotic diuretics are freely filtered by the glomeruli of the kidney—except for manni-tol, which is only slightly metabolized. Osmotic diuretics are ex-creted primarily in urine.

Pharmacodynamics

Osmotic diuretics receive their name because they increase the osmotic pressure of the glomerular filtrate, which inhibits the re-absorption of sodium and water. They create an osmotic gradient in the glomerular filtrate and the blood. In the glomerular filtrate, the gradient prevents sodium and water reabsorption. In the blood, the gradient allows fluid to be drawn from the intracellular into the intravascular spaces.

Pharmacotherapeutics

Osmotic diuretics are used to treat acute renal failure and cere-bral edema and to reduce intracranial and intraocular pressure. Mannitol is used to promote diuresis in acute renal failure and to promote urinary excretion of toxic substances.

Drug interactions

 

Taking osmotic diuretics with lithium may increase renal excre-tion of lithium, which in turn decreases the effectiveness of lithi-um. Patients taking both drugs require lithium level monitoring. (See Adverse reactions to osmotic diuretics.)

 

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