Pariet (Rabeprazole)

Pariet can have two dosages and tablet colors: 10 mg - pink, 20 mg - light yellow. A 10 mg package contains 7, 28, or 30 tablets in blisters. If you need 20 mg tablets, then you can also find them in blisters of 7, 28 and 30 pieces. Each tablet contains 10 or 20 mg of rabeprazole sodium, which goes here as the most active element. But there are also other components inside the pill: titanium dioxide, magnesium oxide, magnesium stearate, ethylcellulose, mannitol, and others. This drug does not contain gluten and lactose in its composition.

Pariet helps to reduce the acid level in your stomach, which allows food to move better along the intestines. Such pills are part of a group of drugs called proton pump inhibitors. They help to relieve abdominal pain that is associated with abnormal functioning of the gastrointestinal tract. Pariet also helps in the treatment of "reflux", that is, with gastroesophageal reflux disease. This is when the food inside the stomach combines with acid and goes back to the esophagus. The symptom of this is heartburn.

Pariet also helps to treat ulcers (it can be a stomach ulcer or the location of it is in the duodenum). This disease occurs due to special bacteria called Helicobacter pylori. Pariet can act together with an antibiotic to quickly and efficiently remove these harmful bacteria from your body. The most effective antibiotic, in this case, is amoxicillin but clarithromycin can also be used. If there are these bacteria, then a person may have chronic gastritis, that is, he feels discomfort in the stomach, vomiting or nausea. Soaring and antibiotics will help to improve the health of your stomach and completely cure the disease.

There are several contraindications when the patient can not use this drug so as not to harm his body:

• If he has a sensitivity to such a component as rabeprazole sodium or any other component of the tablet.
• The appearance of a rash, swelling of the face, itching and other signs of an allergic reaction to the medicine.
• Tablets should not be taken if their packaging is deformed or torn.
• Intolerance to such components as lansoprazole, or other proton pump inhibitors: pantoprazole or omeprazole.

Many other contraindications prohibit taking Pariet. Be sure to consult your doctor before starting this drug. Also, check the dosage - an adult can take from 10 to 40 mg of this medicament, and the treatment of bacteria Helicobacter pylori with antibiotics can use only 20 mg per day for 7 days.