A 4 year old has been prescribed an anticholinergic medication. The nurse should instruction the parents to monitor and report changes in his urinary output.
Anticholinergics are drugs that block and inhibit the action of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh) at synapses in the central and peripheral nervous systems.
In doing so, these drugs inhibit activity of the parasympathetic nervous system (the "rest and digest" function of the autonomic nervous system) through selective blockade that binds ACh to its receptors in neurons.
Functions under the control of the parasympathetic nervous system include involuntary actions of smooth muscles located in the gastrointestinal tract, lungs, urinary tract, and other areas of the body.
In general, anticholinergics can be divided into two categories based on their specific targets at the central and peripheral nervous systems, as well as at neuromuscular junctions. These two types are antimuscarinics and antinicotinics.
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