Quite often, with stomach ulcers or other ailments associated with this body, doctors prescribe the drug “Omez”. Its composition is quite simple. The main and active substance in it is omeprazole. Today, the form of this drug may vary. After all, capsules, powder, tablets in a shell are produced.
Description Omez in action
The drug, getting inside the body, can significantly inhibit the excessive secretion of acid in the stomach. This effect is achieved quickly - literally in half an hour - an hour after the pill was taken. A single daily use of the drug is enough and acid secretion will be inhibited for all day and night. This effective tool helps maintain a normal pH for more than 17 hours in patients with a duodenal ulcer.
Omez tablets. Indications and contraindications
The doctor prescribes the drug as a treatment for the following diseases:
- peptic ulcer (and 12 duodenal ulcer, and stomach);
- conditions in which hypersecretion of acid occurs in the stomach (gastrointestinal ulcers of a stressful nature, Zolinger-Ellison syndrome, systemic mastocytosis, polyendocrine adenomatosis);
- NSAIDs gastropathy.
In some cases, Omez tablets are taken as an additional tool for combined treatment. Often it is prescribed for the prevention of relapse of diseases.
Among the contraindications to taking the drug, hypersensitivity to the composition, as well as children's age, are indicated. No need to take pills for pregnant women and nursing mothers. Under the supervision of a doctor and with extreme caution, Omez can be drunk to patients suffering from renal failure and liver problems.
Side effects
There are a number of actions that are a consequence of taking the Omez drug. They appear in different body systems.
So, the digestive system has the ability to respond by constipation or diarrhea to taking pills. Abdominal pain, flatulence, and often even vomiting can occur. In some cases, there is a violation of taste sensations. Some patients develop stomatitis.
Hematopoietic organs respond with leukopenia, agranulocytosis and thrombocytopenia to taking the drug. The nervous system shows side effects only if the patient has somatic diseases. Then appear:
- depression;
- dizziness;
- excessive agitation;
- headache.
Myalgia and arthralgia appear from the organs of the musculoskeletal system of the body. Very rarely, but there are side effects on the skin. This is a rash, and alopecia, and itching. Among allergic reactions, urticaria, edema, or even anaphylactic shock are manifested.
There are also such side effects of the drug as a violation of visual abilities, general malaise, as well as severe sweating.
Dosage
Omez tablets are always taken exclusively early in the morning, washed down with water. No need to chew.
In case of peptic ulcer, patients are prescribed 20 mg of the drug per day. Drug treatment reaches 8 weeks. In the case of an acute form of the disease, the dose increases exactly 2 times. It is worth noting that with Zollinger-Addison syndrome, Omez tablets are prescribed 60 mg per day. For patients with liver and kidney problems, the dosage of the drug is adjusted individually depending on the patient's condition. If you want to prevent relapse once a day, take only 10 mg per day.
In case of an overdose, symptoms of the following nature necessarily occur:
- drowsiness;
- tachycardia;
- vision becomes blurry;
- arrhythmia occurs;
- consciousness becomes confused.
In this case, prescribe treatment, according to the symptoms.