Description
Pantoprazole Tablet is used to treat heartburn, acid reflux, and peptic ulcer disease.
Pantoprazole helps heal the oesophagus from stomach acid in adults and children over 5 years old. It’s used for a condition called erosive esophagitis caused by GERD. Pantoprazole is usually taken for up to 8 weeks to help your oesophagus heal.
Pantoprazole is used to treat Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and other conditions that cause too much stomach acid.
How To Use Pantoprazole Tablets?
Take pantoprazole Tablets the way your doctor tells you. Follow the instructions on your prescription label and read all the guides or sheets that come with your medication. Take the medicine the way the instructions say.
- Use the smallest amount of medicine for the least time you need to get better.
- Pantoprazole can be taken by swallowing a pill or injecting it into a vein. A doctor or nurse can show you how to give yourself the shot correctly.
- Pantoprazole tablets can be swallowed with or without food. You should take the oral granules 30 minutes before you eat.
- Do not squash, bite, or snap the tablet. Eat it all at once.
- Mix the oral granules with applesauce or apple juice and give them by mouth or through a tube in the nose that goes to the stomach.
- Make sure to read and follow the instructions that come with your medicine.
- Take this medicine for as long as the doctor says, even if you feel better quickly.
- Contact your doctor if your symptoms do not get better or if they get worse while taking this medicine.
- Pantoprazole can make some medical tests give the wrong results. Inform the doctor or the people working in the lab that you are taking this medication.
- Pantoprazole might change the results of a urine drug test and make them inaccurate. Inform the people in the lab that you are taking this medicine.
- Keep this medicine at room temperature and away from moisture, heat, and light.
Benefits Of Pantoprazole Tablets
Pantoprazole tablets have many advantages, such as:
Acid Reduction: Pantoprazole is a medicine that helps reduce the amount of acid in the stomach. This can help with symptoms of acid reflux, heartburn, and ulcers.
Healing Ulcers: Pantoprazole can help heal stomach and small intestine ulcers by lowering acid levels and letting the lining of the gut heal.
Treatment for esophagitis: It can help heal erosive esophagitis, a condition where the oesophagus is inflamed and damaged by stomach acid.
Treating GERD: Pantoprazole helps with symptoms like food coming back up, chest pain, and trouble swallowing caused by gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
Preventing Ulcers: It can be used to stop ulcers from forming in patients who use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for a long time and are at risk.
Side Effects Of Pantoprazole Tablets
- Dizziness
- Abdominal pain
- Joint pain
- Injection site reaction
- Diarrhea
- Flatulence
- Headache
- Nausea
- Vomiting
Precautions Of Pantoprazole Tablets
- Take Pantoprazole one hour before you eat, better if you take it in the morning.
- This medicine is easy for your body to handle and can make you feel better for a long while.
- Here are some tips to avoid getting heartburn:
- Don’t drink too much soda, orange juice, fried food, tea or coffee.
- Don’t drink alcohol or smoke.
- Don’t eat too late at night or right before bed.
- Tell your doctor if you have watery diarrhea, fever, or stomach pain that doesn’t go away.
- Tell your doctor if you still feel sick after using the medicine for 14 days. You might have a different problem that needs to be checked.
- Using Pantoprazole for a long time can make your bones weak and cause a lack of minerals like magnesium. Make sure to eat enough foods with calcium and magnesium or take the supplements your doctor tells you to.
- Never stop taking your medication without first consulting your physician.
- See your doctor immediately if you have less pee, swelling, pain in your lower back, feeling sick, tired, or a rash or fever. These signs could mean there is a problem with your kidneys.
