nexium Dosage and administration:

Inside. Tablet should be swallowed whole, washed down with fluid. Pills can not chew or crush. Treatment of erosive reflux esophagitis: 40 1 mg once daily for 4 weeks. Recommended an additional 4-week course of treatment in cases where after the first course treatment of esophagitis does not occur or symptoms persist. Prevention of relapse in patients with healed oesophagitis: 20 mg 1 time per day. Symptomatic treatment of GERD: 20 mg 1 every day - patients without esophagitis. If after 4 weeks of treatment, symptoms do not disappear, it should hold an additional examination of the patient. In combination with appropriate antibiotic therapy for eradication of Helicobacter pylori, ulcers treated 12 duodenal ulcer associated with Helicobacter pylori, prevention of recurrence of peptic ulcers in patients with peptic ulcer associated with Helicobacter pylori: esomeprazole - 20 mg, amoxicillin - 1 g and clarithromycin - 500 mg 2 times a day for 7 days. Patients with renal insufficiency and for elderly patients dose adjustment is required. In severe hepatic insufficiency the dose should not exceed 20 mg / day.