Nexium Control Tablets (7)

Description

Nexium Control Tablets (7)

Ingredients:

• Esomeprazole 20mg

Directions:

• The recommended dose is 20 mg esomeprazole (one tablet) per day.
• You may need to take the tablets for 2-3 consecutive days to achieve improvement of symptoms.
• The maximum duration of treatment is 2 weeks.
• Once complete relief of symptoms has occurred, treatment should be discontinued.
• If no relief occurs within 2 weeks of continuous treatment, consult your doctor.
• Not suitable for those aged under 18 years
• The tablets should be swallowed whole with half a glass of water. The tablets must not be chewed or crushed.
• Alternatively, the tablet can be dispersed in half a glass of non-carbonated water.
• No other liquids should be used as the enteric coating may be dissolved.
• The water should be stirred until the tablet disintegrates.
• The liquid with the pellets should be drunk immediately or within 30 minutes.
• The glass should be rinsed with half a glass of water and the water drunk.
• The pellets should not be chewed or crushed.

Ask your doctor if:

• You have significant unintentional weight loss, recurrent vomiting, dysphagia, haematemesis or melaena and when gastric ulcer is suspected or present, malignancy should be excluded as treatment with esomeprazole may alleviate symptoms and delay diagnosis.
• You have had previous gastric ulcer or gastrointestinal surgery.
• You have been on continuous symptomatic treatment of indigestion or heartburn for 4 or more weeks.
• You have jaundice or severe liver disease.
• You are aged over 55 years with new or recently changed symptoms.

Cautions:

• should not be taken as a long term preventive medicinal product.
• Treatment with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) may lead to a slightly increased risk of gastrointestinal infections such as Salmonella and Campylobacter and in hospitalised patients, also possibly Clostridium difficile
• You should consult their doctor before taking this medicinal product if they are due to have an endoscopy or urea breath test.