what the heck is Namentadine ? HELP ?

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Well Dad has been out of it for the last few days at the rehab place - so I went

to bug the nurses to see if they had given him any

sleep aid or something.

In going through the chart I see he was on 5 mg of Namentadine ? What the heck

is that ... no-one knew - couldn't find it in the PDR

etc ! But he's been getting it for 4 days so its pretty suspicious to me that

he's been out of it for 3 !

SO I come home do an internet search and come up with this:

Memantine - which is the new Alz drug - Nemanda - which I know some LBD folks

try - so that might be OK - but if that's what it is -

its not helping dad thats for sure.

OR

Amantadine (no N and there is a second a) ... which is

For Parkinsonism, drug induced extrapyramidal reactions, prophylaxis of

Influenza A and treatment of Influenza if

seen < than 20hrs after onset of illness; has ability to release dopamine;

My theory is the doc called in Memantine and in the transciption it became

Nemantadine and then Amantadine ant thats; what he is

getting ???

Let me know if you know anything about either of these two drugs

thanks

donna