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Product Name: Famox
Drug Name: Famotidine
Other Names: Pepcid
Packaging Type: Packets of 60 x 20 mg Tablets
Manufacturer: Pacific Pharmaceuticals
Use: Famotidine is used to treat and prevent the recurrence of ulcers and to treat other conditions where the stomach makes too much acid. Famotidine also is used to treat or prevent occasional heartburn, acid indigestion, or sour stomach. It decreases the amount of acid made in the stomach.
How to take it: It is usually taken once daily at bedtime or twice a day with or without food.
Side effects: Although side effects from famotidine are not common, they can occur. Tell your doctor if any of these symptoms are severe or do not go away; headache, dizziness, constipation, diarrhea.
Precautions: Before taking famotidine, tell your doctor and pharmacist if you are allergic to famotidine, cimetidine (Tagamet), nizatidine (Axid), ranitidine (Zantac), or any other drugs. Tell your doctor and pharmacist what prescription and nonprescription medications you are taking, if you have or have ever had kidney or liver disease, or if you are pregnant, plan to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding. If you become pregnant while taking famotidine, call your doctor.
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