Cholestyramine Resin

Name: Cholestyramine Resin Drug Interactions
Creator: Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS

70 interactions 215 cited references

Also sold as: Locholest® Locholest® Light Prevalite Prevalite® Questran Questran® Questran® Light

About Cholestyramine Resin

Cholestyramine is used with diet changes (restriction of cholesterol and fat intake) to reduce the amount of cholesterol and certain fatty substances in your blood. Accumulation of cholesterol and fats along the walls of your arteries (a process known as atherosclerosis) decreases blood flow and, therefore, the oxygen… Read the full Cholestyramine Resin drug information page →

Medically reviewed by Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS · Updated Aug 10, 2026 · Editorial policy · Data sources

Sources: FDA prescribing information (Structured Product Labeling), the published literature cited in each entry, DDInter 2.0 (a major open-access drug-interaction database), and legacy DrugBank interaction data distributed by the NIH's RxNav service (decommissioned in 2024) — analyzed and reviewed by our pharmacist team. How we build this library →

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