What is Metoclopramide?
Metoclopramide, marketed as Reglan, Octamide, and Maxolon, is a drug which increases the stomach’s ability to empty digested food and move it on to the small intestine. Slowed stomach-emptying sometimes becomes a problem in diabetes, and many users of metoclopramide (Reglan, Octamide, Maxolon) are diabetics. Other uses include treatment of heartburn in gastroesophageal reflux when first-line drugs have not worked, and management of nausea and vomiting in migraines and in cancer treatment.
