cimetidine

The inhibition of the cytochrome P-450 enzymes by ranitidine or cimetidine can also lead to potentially dangerous side effects with certain other psychiatric medications.

Q WOULD it be safe for me to take St John's Wort in tincture, as well as other medicine I must take such as Cimetidine, Co-proxamol.

Treatment with DPH (100 mg 3 times daily) and cimetidine (400 mg 2 times daily) was begun.

Pharmacologic agents have been used in the treatment of these oral lesions with variable success; these include topical keratolytic agents such as podophyllin resin, intralesional or systemic interferon, and intralesional cidofovir injections.[12] Recently, the use of cimetidine, an H2-receptor antagonist, has been described for the management of oral warts associated with HIV infection.[12] Anecdotal evidence suggests that a combination of surgical or laser excision of larger lesions, along with oral cimetidine treatment for several months, is the most effective therapy for these lesions.

Brand-name prescription drugs offered by pharmaceutical companies are often many times the price of generic treatments - generic ulcer drug cimetidine cost pounds 5 before it was made unavailable, but SmithKline Beecham's brand equivalent, Tagamet, costs the NHS pounds 22.62.

These ulcers can be cured with a combination of antibiotics and acid blockers such as cimetidine (Tagamet) and ranitidin (Zantac), avoiding the need for surgery.

Medications used to reduce stomach acid include cimetidine, ranitidine, famotidine, and omeprazole.

In a second type of experiment, we tested whether cimetidine, a blocker of histaminergic receptors, could reduce the effects of lateral inhibition on eccentric cell responses.

Two of these drugs, ranitidine hydrochloride (Zantac) and cimetidine (Tagamet), are among the most frequently prescribed drugs in the world.

The premedication regimen involves the combined use of an H1 antagonist (Atarax) and an H2 antagonist Cimetidine (Tagamet), which are administered to all patients on the evening prior to contrast agent administration and 1 to 2 hours preceding the contrast study.

Other substances, such as serum proteins, ketoacids, and drugs (cephalosporins and cimetidine) also react with pierate under these conditions, potentially overestimating the creatinine level by as much as 20% [17, 18].

Even the H-2 blocking agent cimetidine, when used in doses not adjusted for decreased renal function found in the older patient, may cause delirium which can be misdiagnosed as dementia.