Imodium and Earache - a phase IV clinical study of FDA data
Summary:
Earache is reported only by a few people who take Imodium.
The phase IV clinical study analyzes which people take Imodium and have Earache. It is created by eHealthMe based on reports of 37,414 people who have side effects while taking Imodium from the FDA, and is updated regularly.
Phase IV trials are used to detect adverse drug outcomes and monitor drug effectiveness in the real world. With medical big data and AI algorithms, eHealthMe is running millions of phase IV trials and makes the results available to the public. Our original studies have been referenced on 600+ medical publications including The Lancet, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, and Nature.
37,414 people reported to have side effects when taking Imodium.
Among them, 3 people (0.01%) have Earache.
What is Imodium?
Imodium has active ingredients of loperamide hydrochloride. It is often used in diarrhea. eHealthMe is studying from 34,806 Imodium users for its effectiveness, alternative drugs and more.
What is Earache?
Earache (ear pain) is found to be associated with 629 drugs by eHealthMe.
Number of Imodium and Earache reports submitted per year:

Gender of people who have Earache when taking Imodium *:
- female: 66.67 %
- male: 33.33 %
Age of people who have Earache when taking Imodium *:
- 0-1: 0.0 %
- 2-9: 0.0 %
- 10-19: 33.33 %
- 20-29: 0.0 %
- 30-39: 33.33 %
- 40-49: 0.0 %
- 50-59: 0.0 %
- 60+: 33.33 %
Common drugs people take besides Imodium *:
- Vitamin E: 1 person, 33.33%
- Videx: 1 person, 33.33%
- Tylenol: 1 person, 33.33%
- Temazepam: 1 person, 33.33%
- Sustiva: 1 person, 33.33%
- Prozac: 1 person, 33.33%
- Premarin: 1 person, 33.33%
- Neutrexin: 1 person, 33.33%
- Megace: 1 person, 33.33%
- Lomotil: 1 person, 33.33%
Common side effects people have besides Earache *:
- Rectal Bleeding (bleeding from rectum): 1 person, 33.33%
- Productive Cough: 1 person, 33.33%
- Postural Hypotension: 1 person, 33.33%
- Oesophagitis (inflammation of oesophagus): 1 person, 33.33%
- Melaena (the passage of black, tarry stools): 1 person, 33.33%
- Head Injury: 1 person, 33.33%
- Haemorrhoids (a swollen vein or group of veins in the region of the anus): 1 person, 33.33%
- Fever: 1 person, 33.33%
- Fall: 1 person, 33.33%
- Enteritis (inflammation of the small intestine): 1 person, 33.33%
* Approximation only. Some reports may have incomplete information.
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How severe was Earache and when was it recovered:
Expand to all the drugs that have ingredients of loperamide hydrochloride:
Alternative drugs to, pros and cons of Imodium:
- Imodium (34,806 reports)
Common Imodium side effects:
- Abdominal discomfort: 666 reports
- Abdominal distension: 589 reports
- Abdominal pain: 1,708 reports
- Abdominal pain lower: 136 reports
- Abdominal pain upper: 951 reports
- Acne (skin problems that cause pimples): 135 reports
- Acute kidney failure: 520 reports
- Adverse drug reaction: 129 reports
- Adverse event: 117 reports
- Agitation (state of anxiety or nervous excitement): 213 reports
- Agranulocytosis (a deficiency of granulocytes in the blood, causing increased vulnerability to infection): 598 reports
- Alanine aminotransferase increased: 217 reports
- Anaemia (lack of blood): 1,165 reports
- Anorexia (eating disorder characterized by immoderate food restriction and irrational fear of gaining weight): 154 reports
- Appetite - decreased (decreased appetite occurs when you have a reduced desire to eat): 1,341 reports
- Arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat): 378 reports
- Arthritis (form of joint disorder that involves inflammation of one or more joints): 234 reports
- Arthropathy: 123 reports
- Ascites (accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity): 186 reports
- Aspartate aminotransferase increased: 218 reports
- Asthma: 227 reports
- Atelectasis (partial or complete collapse of the lung): 151 reports
- Atrial fibrillation/flutter (atrial fibrillation and flutter are abnormal heart rhythms in which the atria, or upper chambers of the heart, are out of sync with the ventricles): 559 reports
- Back pain: 864 reports
- Balance disorder: 196 reports
- Blister (small pocket of fluid within the upper layers of the skin caused by forceful rubbing (friction), burning, freezing, chemical exposure): 232 reports
- Blood alkaline phosphatase increased: 162 reports
- Blood bilirubin increased: 223 reports
- Blood calcium decreased: 110 reports
- Blood creatinine increased: 338 reports
- Blood glucose increased: 351 reports
- Blood magnesium decreased: 116 reports
- Blood potassium decreased: 289 reports
- Blood pressure fluctuation: 145 reports
- Blood pressure systolic increased: 225 reports
- Blood sodium decreased: 149 reports
- Blood urea increased: 143 reports
- Bone disorder: 127 reports
- Bone pain: 145 reports
- Bradycardia (abnormally slow heart action): 140 reports
- Breathing difficulty: 1,614 reports
- Bronchitis (inflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes): 364 reports
- Burning sensation: 165 reports
- Cardiac arrest: 185 reports
- Cardiac disorder: 144 reports
- Cardiac failure: 145 reports
- Cardiac failure congestive: 299 reports
- Cardio-respiratory arrest (sudden dysfunction of heart and lungs): 108 reports
- Cataract (clouding of the lens inside the eye): 200 reports
- Cellulitis (infection under the skin): 270 reports
- Chest pain: 851 reports
- Chills (felling of cold): 458 reports
- Chronic kidney disease: 208 reports
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (a progressive disease that makes it hard to breathe): 198 reports
- Clostridium difficile colitis (inflammation of colon by clostridium difficile bacteria infection): 127 reports
- Colitis (inflammation of colon): 391 reports
- Confusion: 196 reports
- Confusional state: 438 reports
- Consciousness - decreased: 513 reports
- Constipation: 1,451 reports
- Cough: 945 reports
- Coughing up blood: 111 reports
- C-reactive protein increased: 187 reports
- Crohn's disease (condition that causes inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract): 638 reports
- Death: 951 reports
- Deep venous thrombosis (blood clot in a major vein that usually develops in the legs and/or pelvis): 284 reports
- Dehydration (dryness resulting from the removal of water): 1,779 reports
- Depressed mood: 114 reports
- Depression: 635 reports
- Dermatitis (inflammation of the skin resulting from direct irritation by an external agent or an allergic reaction to it): 119 reports
- Device related infection: 110 reports
- Diabetes: 175 reports
- Diarrhea: 6,896 reports
- Disease progression: 407 reports
- Disturbance in attention: 104 reports
- Diverticulitis (digestive disease which involves the formation of pouches (diverticula) within the bowel wall): 182 reports
- Diverticulum (out pouching of a hollow (or a fluid-filled) structure in the body): 133 reports
- Dizziness: 1,404 reports
- Drowsiness: 879 reports
- Drug abuse and dependence: 224 reports
- Drug administration error: 107 reports
- Drug dependence: 139 reports
- Drug effect decreased: 117 reports
- Drug hypersensitivity: 240 reports
- Drug ineffective: 2,729 reports
- Drug intolerance (drug sensitivity): 127 reports
- Dry eyes (lack of adequate tears): 139 reports
- Dry mouth: 318 reports
- Dry skin: 374 reports
- Dyspnea exertional: 244 reports
- Electrocardiogram qt prolonged: 158 reports
- Electrolyte imbalance: 105 reports
- Emotional distress: 163 reports
- Enlarged heart: 111 reports
- Erythema multiforme (a type of hypersensitivity reaction): 208 reports
- Eye pain: 104 reports
- Faeces discolored: 199 reports
- Fainting (loss of consciousness and postural tone): 430 reports
- Fall: 1,134 reports
- Fatigue (feeling of tiredness): 3,081 reports
- Febrile neutropenia (fever with reduced white blood cells): 426 reports
- Feeling hot: 107 reports
- Fever: 1,433 reports
- Fistula (an abnormal connection or passageway between two): 111 reports
- Flatulence (flatus expelled through the anus): 502 reports
- Fluid overload (too much fluid in the blood): 102 reports
- Fluid retention (an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the blood): 212 reports
- Fungal infection: 113 reports
- Gait disturbance: 390 reports
- Gallstones (stone formation by bile component): 228 reports
- Gastric disorder (disease of stomach): 118 reports
- Gastric ulcer (stomach ulcer): 197 reports
- Gastritis (inflammation of stomach): 174 reports
- Gastroenteritis (inflammation of stomach and intestine): 177 reports
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (a condition in which stomach contents leak backward from the stomach into the oesophagus): 828 reports
- Gastrointestinal disorder (functional problems of gastrointestinal tract): 282 reports
- Gastrointestinal haemorrhage (bleeding gastrointestinal tract): 421 reports
- Gastrointestinal perforation (hole in the digestive tract): 131 reports
- General physical health deterioration (weak health status): 426 reports
- Haematochezia (passage of stools containing blood): 307 reports
- Haematocrit decreased: 197 reports
- Haemoglobin decreased: 628 reports
- Haemorrhage (bleeding): 205 reports
- Haemorrhoids (a swollen vein or group of veins in the region of the anus): 186 reports
- Hair color changes: 122 reports
- Hair loss: 480 reports
- Hallucinations (sensations that appear real but are created by your mind): 118 reports
- Headache (pain in head): 1,322 reports
- Head injury: 378 reports
- Heart attack: 268 reports
- Heart palpitations (feelings or sensations that your heart is pounding or racing): 264 reports
- Heart rate decreased: 140 reports
- Heart rate increased: 298 reports
- Heart rate irregular: 103 reports
- Hepatic enzyme increased: 195 reports
- Hepatotoxicity (chemical-driven liver damage): 102 reports
- Hernia (hernia happens when part of an internal organ or tissue bulges through a weak area of muscle): 125 reports
- Herpes zoster: 228 reports
- Hiatal hernia (hernia resulting from the protrusion of part of the stomach through the diaphragm): 115 reports
- High blood cholesterol: 177 reports
- High blood pressure: 1,351 reports
- Hip fracture: 158 reports
- Hoarseness or changing voice: 201 reports
- Hospitalisation: 159 reports
- Hot flush (sudden feelings of heat): 220 reports
- Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar): 178 reports
- Hyperhidrosis (abnormally increased sweating): 252 reports
- Hyperkalemia (damage to or disease of the kidney): 209 reports
- Hypersensitivity: 307 reports
- Hypoaesthesia (reduced sense of touch or sensation): 468 reports
- Hypocalcaemia (levels of calcium in blood serum are abnormally low): 144 reports
- Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar): 115 reports
- Hypokalemia (low potassium): 500 reports
- Hypomagnesaemia (electrolyte disturbance in which there is an abnormally low level of magnesium in the blood): 164 reports
- Hyponatremia (abnormally low level of sodium in the blood; associated with dehydration): 304 reports
- Hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure): 1,028 reports
- Hypothyroidism (abnormally low activity of the thyroid gland, resulting in retardation of growth and mental development): 125 reports
- Hypovolaemia (a decreased volume of circulating blood in the body): 101 reports
- Impaired healing: 152 reports
- Indigestion: 595 reports
- Infection: 373 reports
- Inflammation: 134 reports
- Influenza like illness: 131 reports
- Infusion related reaction: 133 reports
- Injection site pain: 315 reports
- Injury: 211 reports
- Insomnia (sleeplessness): 700 reports
- International normalised ratio increased: 164 reports
- Intervertebral disc protrusion (spinal disc protrusion): 135 reports
- Intestinal obstruction: 493 reports
- Irritable bowel syndrome: 183 reports
- Itching: 658 reports
- Jaundice - yellow skin (a yellowish pigmentation of the skin): 119 reports
- Joint pain: 942 reports
- Joint swelling: 273 reports
- Kidney stones: 174 reports
- Leukocytosis (increased white blood cells): 126 reports
- Leukopenia (less number of white blood cells in blood): 184 reports
- Loss of consciousness: 305 reports
- Low tissue oxygen: 166 reports
- Lung disorder (lung disease): 143 reports
- Lymph follicular hypertrophy (an increase in the size of the lymph node follicles): 211 reports
- Malaise (a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness): 983 reports
- Malignant neoplasm progression (cancer tumour came back): 331 reports
- Malnutrition (condition that results from eating a diet in which certain nutrients are lacking): 133 reports
- Memory loss: 415 reports
- Mental status changes (general changes in brain function, such as confusion, amnesia (memory loss), loss of alertness, loss of orientation): 131 reports
- Metabolic acidosis (body produces too much acid, or when the kidneys are not removing enough acid from the body): 123 reports
- Migraine (headache): 205 reports
- Mucosal inflammation (infection of mucous membrane): 264 reports
- Multi-organ failure (multisystem organ failure): 103 reports
- Multiple myeloma (cancer of the plasma cells): 196 reports
- Muscle aches (muscle pain): 376 reports
- Muscle spasms (muscle contraction): 642 reports
- Musculoskeletal pain (pain affects the bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and nerves): 179 reports
- Musculoskeletal stiffness (stiffness of the body's muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments and nerves): 142 reports
- Nasal congestion (blockage of the nasal passages usually due to membranes lining the nose becoming swollen from inflamed blood vessels): 185 reports
- Nasopharyngitis (inflammation of the nasopharynx): 550 reports
- Nausea (feeling of having an urge to vomit): 3,331 reports
- Nausea and vomiting: 2,250 reports
- Neck pain: 156 reports
- Neoplasm malignant (cancer tumour): 122 reports
- Neoplasm progression (growth of tumour): 117 reports
- Nervousness: 137 reports
- Neuropathy peripheral (surface nerve damage): 455 reports
- Neutrophil count decreased (less than normal number of neutrophil a type of blood cell): 132 reports
- Night sweats (sweating in night): 166 reports
- Nosebleed (bleeding from nose): 359 reports
- Oedema (fluid collection in tissue): 255 reports
- Oedema peripheral (superficial swelling): 645 reports
- Oral candidiasis (fungal infection of mouth): 104 reports
- Oral pain: 202 reports
- Oropharyngeal pain: 324 reports
- Osteoarthritis (a joint disease caused by cartilage loss in a joint): 239 reports
- Osteomyelitis (infection of bone): 148 reports
- Osteonecrosis of jaw (death of bone of jaw): 204 reports
- Osteopenia (a condition where bone mineral density is lower than normal): 105 reports
- Osteoporosis (bones weak and more likely to break): 173 reports
- Overdose: 441 reports
- Oxygen saturation decreased: 145 reports
- Pain: 1,357 reports
- Pain in extremity: 857 reports
- Pain in jaw: 248 reports
- Palmar-plantar erythrodysaesthesia syndrome (hand-foot syndrome): 163 reports
- Pancreatitis (inflammation of pancreas): 159 reports
- Pancytopenia (medical condition in which there is a reduction in the number of red and white blood cells, as well as platelets): 294 reports
- Paraesthesia (sensation of tingling, tickling, prickling, pricking, or burning of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect): 397 reports
- Peripheral swelling: 476 reports
- Pleural effusion (water on the lungs): 465 reports
- Pneumonia: 1,472 reports
- Pneumonia aspiration (bronchopneumonia that develops due to the entrance of foreign materials into the bronchial tree): 479 reports
- Pollakiuria (abnormally frequent passage of relatively small quantities or urine): 118 reports
- Productive cough: 278 reports
- Psychotic disorder: 133 reports
- Pulmonary embolism (blockage of the main artery of the lung): 403 reports
- Pulmonary hypertension (increase in blood pressure in the lung artery): 150 reports
- Pulmonary oedema (fluid accumulation in the lungs): 165 reports
- Rash erythematous (redness of the skin): 124 reports
- Rashes (redness): 1,436 reports
- Rash pruritic (redness with itching): 214 reports
- Rectal haemorrhage (bleeding from anus): 288 reports
- Red blood cell count decreased: 226 reports
- Renal disorder (kidney disease): 105 reports
- Renal failure acute (rapid kidney dysfunction): 354 reports
- Renal impairment (severely reduced kidney function): 179 reports
- Respiratory acidosis (respiratory failure or ventilatory failure, causes the ph of blood and other bodily fluids to decrease): 291 reports
- Retching (strong involuntary effort to vomit): 136 reports
- Rheumatoid arthritis (a chronic progressive disease causing inflammation in the joints): 102 reports
- Rib fracture: 123 reports
- Schizophrenia (a mental disorder characterized by a breakdown of thought processes): 108 reports
- Seizures (abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain): 125 reports
- Sepsis (a severe blood infection that can lead to organ failure and death): 554 reports
- Septic shock (shock due to blood infection): 210 reports
- Sinusitis (inflammation of sinus): 396 reports
- Skin blushing/flushing (a sudden reddening of the face, neck): 242 reports
- Skin discoloration: 142 reports
- Skin exfoliation (removal of the oldest dead skin cells): 155 reports
- Skin ulcer: 106 reports
- Sleep disorder: 106 reports
- Small intestinal obstruction (blockage in small intestine): 241 reports
- Speech impairment (adult) (inability to speak (adult)): 188 reports
- Spinal osteoarthritis (joint cartilage loss in spine): 107 reports
- Splenomegaly (enlargement of spleen): 102 reports
- Staphylococcal infection (an infection with staphylococcus bacteria): 159 reports
- Stomatitis (inflammation of mucous membrane of mouth): 402 reports
- Stress and anxiety: 859 reports
- Stroke (sudden death of a portion of the brain cells due to a lack of oxygen): 303 reports
- Suicide attempt: 118 reports
- Swallowing difficulty: 466 reports
- Swelling: 197 reports
- Swelling face: 145 reports
- Taste - impaired: 430 reports
- The flu (the flu is caused by an influenza virus): 291 reports
- Therapeutic response decreased (less preventive response): 113 reports
- Therapeutic response unexpected: 139 reports
- Throat irritation: 123 reports
- Thrombocytopenia (decrease of platelets in blood): 965 reports
- Thrombosis (formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel): 248 reports
- Tinnitus (a ringing in the ears): 105 reports
- Tooth disorder (tooth disease): 109 reports
- Transient ischaemic attack (a transient episode of neurologic dysfunction caused by ischemia (loss of blood flow)): 122 reports
- Tremor (trembling or shaking movements in one or more parts of your body): 428 reports
- Tumor: 132 reports
- Ulcerative colitis (inflammatory bowel disease (ibd). it causes swelling, ulcerations, and loss of function of the large intestine): 233 reports
- Upper respiratory tract infection: 210 reports
- Urinary incontinence (inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination): 106 reports
- Urinary retention (the inability to completely or partially empty the bladder): 142 reports
- Urinary tract infection: 830 reports
- Urination - painful: 169 reports
- Urticaria (rash of round, red welts on the skin that itch intensely): 265 reports
- Vision blurred: 303 reports
- Visual impairment: 213 reports
- Weakness: 1,977 reports
- Weight decreased: 1,568 reports
- Weight increased: 525 reports
- Wheezing (a high-pitched whistling sound made while you breath): 184 reports
- White blood cell count decreased: 431 reports
- White blood cell count increased: 174 reports
Browse all side effects of Imodium:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y zEarache treatments and more:
- Earache (1,078 reports)
COVID vaccines that are related to Earache:
- Earache in Moderna COVID Vaccine
- Earache in Pfizer BioNTech Covid Vaccine
- Earache in Johnson and Johnson Covid Vaccine
All the drugs that are associated with Earache:
- Earache (629 drugs)
All the conditions that are associated with Earache:
How the study uses the data?
The study uses data from the FDA. It is based on loperamide hydrochloride (the active ingredients of Imodium) and Imodium (the brand name). Other drugs that have the same active ingredients (e.g. generic drugs) are not considered. Dosage of drugs is not considered in the study.
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