What is Lansoprazole?
Lansoprazole is a medication that is used to reduce the production of acids in the stomach. Lansoprazole belongs to a class of acid reducers known as proton pump inhibitors or PPIs. It can be the sole active ingredient in heartburn medications that provide long-term relief of symptoms, or it can be combined with an additional active component that aids in lansoprazole's absorption.
How Does Lansoprazole Work?
Stomach acids play an important role in the digestive process by breaking down food before it reaches the intestines. To protect the oesophagus from these chemicals the oesophageal sphincter contains a group of muscles that act as a one-way barrier that only allows the passage of food. However, the oesophagal sphincter can occasionally weaken, allowing stomach acid to spill over the barrier and into the oesophagus, causing acid reflux.
lansoprazole is a proton pump inhibitor that works by blocking the activity of proton pumps (proteins that create acid in the stomach). This lowers stomach acid levels and reduces pain from acid reflux.
Conditions that can be Treated by Lansoprazole
Lansoprazole primarily works by lowering stomach acid production. However, it can also be used to treat the following conditions:
Treatment of duodenal and stomach ulcer
Treatment of inflammation in the oesophagus
Treatment of heartburn and acid regurgitation
Treatment of Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.
Before taking Lansoprazole Orodispersible Tablets, contact your doctor or pharmacist if:
You have liver problems or osteoporosis.
If you're pregnant, trying to conceive, or nursing.
Are due for an endoscopy.
You are allergic to other proton pump inhibitors.
Always follow your doctor's instructions carefully and check with them if you are unsure about anything. The orodispersible tablets should be taken orally, but can also be taken using a syringe. If ingested or given via syringe, the following steps must be followed:
Handle the tablets carefully and especially with clean, dry hands to prevent them from breaking.
Dissolve the tablet in water or place it gently on your tongue and suck so that the micro granules are released.
If injected, remove the plunger from the syringe, insert the tablet into the barrel of the syringe, replace the plunger on top of the needle, draw water into the syringe by inverting it and stirring gently until the tablet is dispersed, consume the content straight away.
The active ingredient is Lansoprazole
The inactive ingredients are titanium dioxide, hypromellose, talc, magnesium carbonate, triethyl citrate, mannitol, sugar spheres,� among others.
Convulsions
Severe stomach pain
Severe diarrhoea with bloody or watery stool
Blistering skin
You must stop taking Lansoprazole and seek immediate medical assistance when you experience these or more effects.
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