Drug Name

Nexium (Esomeprazole)

Drug Uses

Nexium decreases the sum of dose produced in the tummy. Nexium is secondhand to goody symptoms of gastroesophageal ebb disease (GERD) and early weather involving undue venter pane such as Zollinger-Ellison syndrome. It is too victimised to upgrade curative of mordant oesophagitis (hurt to your gorge caused by breadbasket elvis).
Nexium may besides be presumption to forbid stomachic ulceration caused by transmission with helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), or by the use of nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).

How to use

Use Nexium as directed by your doc.

    * Take Nexium by speak with or without nutrient.
    * Take it roughly the like metre alwaysy day.
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Ask your wellness tending supplier any questions you may birth astir how to use Nexium.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Nexium is a proton ticker inhibitor. It deeds by decreasing the come of dose produced in the abdomen.

Missed Dose

Take the lost zen as presently as you retrieve. If it is about sentence for your adjacent acid, decamp the lost elvis and yield the music at the following regularly scheduled metre. Do not proceeds supererogatory medication to micturate up the lost acid.

Storage

Store Nexium at board temperature, betwixt 68 and 77 degrees F (20 and 25 degrees C). Store outside from oestrus, wet, and ignitor. Keep Nexium out of the stretch of children and out from pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do not use Nexium if:

    * you are hypersensitised to any fixings in Nexium or to standardized medicines (e.g., prilosec);
    * you are pickings an HIV proteinase inhibitor (e.g., atazanavir).

Contact your fix or wellness maintenance supplier rightfulness outside if any of these utilize to you.

Important :

    * Nexium may campaign sleepiness or vertigo. These effects may be worsened if you payoff it with inebriant or sealed medicines. Use Nexium with precaution. Do not driving or execute over-the-counter peradventure dangerous tasks until you cognize how you respond to it.
    * Contact your doc if you birth any symptoms of a haemorrhage ulceration, such as blackness, footle stools or vomiting that looks wish java evidence; or if you feel pharynx annoyance, thorax hurting, serious belly annoyance, or hassle swallowing.
    * Nexium may intervene with sure lab tests. Be certainly your physician and lab force acknowledge you are victimisation Esomeprazole.
    * Nexium should be exploited with forethought in Asian patients; the jeopardy of slope effects may be increased in these patients.
    * Nexium should be victimized with uttermost carefulness in children; prophylactic and effectuality in children birth not been confirmed.
    * If you go meaning, touch your dr.. You leave pauperization to discourse the benefits and risks of exploitation Nexium piece you are significant. It is not known if Nexium is institute in boob milk. Do not breast-feed patch exploitation Nexium.

Possible Side Effects

Check with your medico if any of these near park incline effects prevail or get pestiferous:

    * impairment; looseness; dry lip; gas; cephalalgia; sickness; infliction, excrescence, or red at the injectant situation; tum bother.

Seek checkup tending veracious out if any of these grave english effects hap:

    * terrible sensitised reactions (foolhardy; urticaria; itch; trouble eupnoeic; niggardness in the thorax; intumescency of the speak, brass, lips, or spit; strange huskiness); thorax infliction; loyal pulse; feverishness, chills, or huffy pharynx; red, vain, blistered, or desquamation bark; strange bruising or haemorrhage; strange weariness.

More Information

Nexium is to be put-upon alone by the patient for whom it is official. Do not percentage it with over-the-counter citizenry.
If your symptoms do not amend or if they get worsened, deterrent with your bushel.