Inside, you can not chew or divide the pill. It should be swallowed whole, it is possible to take as with food, and without it.
Recommended reception mode for Ulter with peptic ulcer - 20-40 mg / day.
In elderly patients, with chronic renal failure (CRF) - not more than 20 mg / day.
The course of treatment for exacerbation of duodenal ulcer - 2 weeks, exacerbation of gastric ulcer and gastroesophageal reflux disease - 4-8 weeks.
At conditions accompanied by hypersecretion of gastric juice, the course of treatment can be quite long, it depends on the individual characteristics of the patient's body and is established by the attending physician depending on the rate of scarring of erosive and ulcerative defects and reducing the basal secretion of hydrochloric acid to the limits of physiological norm. Based on clinical experience, the recommended initial dose of the drug is 20 mg 2 times a day.
With Zollinger-Ellison syndrome the level of basal secretion of hydrochloric acid should be below 10 meq / h for patients without surgical treatment, this may require a dose of up to 120 mg per day and 5 meq / h in patients after surgical treatment.
With hepatic insufficiency, 20 mg once every 2 days.