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Diphenoxylate

What the body turns Diphenoxylate into, as its Wikipedia article records it.

Quoted from Wikipedia, not yet written up by hand. Its infobox gives no timings, so this shows only what the article text says it turns into.

DiphenoxylatetakenDifenoxinmetabolite

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Each bar runs from the dose to about five half-lives, roughly when 97% of that molecule has been converted or cleared. The scale is logarithmic so minutes and days fit on one line.

  1. hoursfrom the article text

    What else it turns into

    “Diphenoxylate is rapidly metabolized to difenoxin; it is eliminated mostly in feces but also in urine.” 2

  2. half-lifehalf gone

    Elimination half-life

    12–14 hours 1

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, Diphenoxylate, drug infobox (revision 1373624943), CC BY-SA 4.0. Values quoted as they appear, with wiki markup removed.
  2. Wikipedia, Diphenoxylate, article text (revision 1373624943), CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences quoted as they appear.

Half-lives vary between people, doses and routes. This page explains what the body does with a drug. It is not dosing advice.