Health Centres - Pepcidtwo
How does it work?
This medicine contains three active ingredients, famotidine, magnesium hydroxide and calcium carbonate.
What is it used for?
- Excess acid in the stomach (hyperacidity)
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Heartburn
- Indigestion
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Indigestion symptoms related to excess stomach acid
Warning!
- If symptoms persist despite treatment, seek medical advice from your doctor or pharmacist.
- Indigestion and heartburn can sometimes be symptoms of more serious conditions such as stomach ulcers or stomach cancer. For this reason, you should consult your doctor before taking this medicine if any of the following apply to you: you are middle aged or older and your indigestion symptoms are new or recently changed; you have difficulty swallowing; you have persistant stomach pain or unintended weight loss associated with indigestion; you are taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), eg aspirin, ibuprofen, diclofenac, indometacin, naproxen, azapropazone, piroxicam, ketoprofen.
- Do not take more than two tablets in 24 hours.
- Do not use this medicine for more than 6 days without the advice of a doctor or pharmacist.
- This medicine can mask the symptoms of stomach cancer and therefore delay diagnosis of this condition. For this reason, the possibility of stomach cancer should be excluded by your doctor before you start treatment with this medicine, particularly if you are middle aged or over and have new or recently changed indigestion symptoms.
- People with kidney or liver disease should consult their doctor before using this medicine. People with kidney disease will need to have the amount of calcium in their blood monitored while they are taking this medicine.
- If you suffer from any other illness or are taking any other medicines you should consult your doctor before using this medicine.
Use with caution in
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Kidney failure
- Severely decreased liver function
Not to be used in
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Breastfeeding
This medicine should not be used if you are allergic to one or any of its ingredients. Please inform your doctor or pharmacist if you have previously experienced such an allergy.
Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
- This medicine is not recommended for use in pregnancy unless considered essential by your doctor. Seek medical advice from your doctor.
Side effects
- Headache
The side effects listed above may not include all of the side effects reported by the drug's manufacturer.
- Children under 16 years of age
- Deficiency of lactase in the gut, leading to intolerance to lactose in the diet
- Inherited deficiency of sucrase and isomaltase in the gut, leading to intolerance to sugars in the diet
- Inherited inability to absorb the sugars glucose and galactose (glucose-galactose malabsorption)
- Inherited inability to metabolise galactose in the diet (galactosaemia)
- Intolerance to the sugar fructose in the diet
Certain medicines should not be used during pregnancy or breastfeeding. However, other medicines may be safely used in pregnancy or breastfeeding providing the benefits to the mother outweigh the risks to the unborn baby. Always inform your doctor if you are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, before using any medicine.
- This medicine passes into breast milk. Breastfeeding mothers should therefore either stop breastfeeding while taking this medicine, or not take this medicine. Seek medical advice from your doctor.
Medicines and their possible side effects can affect individual people in different ways. The following are some of the side effects that are known to be associated with this medicine. Because a side effect is stated here, it does not mean that all people using this medicine will experience that or any side effect.
- Dry mouth
- Excess gas in the stomach and intestines (flatulence)
- Thirst
- Pins and needles (paraesthesia)
- Dizziness
- Alteration in taste
- Bloating
- Nervousness
- Disturbances of the gut such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea or abdominal pain
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