AboutDr. Ravindra Bhaskar Ghooi Expertise I can provide information on drugs and medicines, their actions, uses, interactions and adverse effects. To avoid confusion, generic names of
medicines may please be provided. I am a pharmacologist, having worked
on animal and human pharmacology, and presently I am the Dean of Bilcare Research Academy, where we teach courses on clinical research. We dont work on saturdays and sundays, hence questions reachng me on these days will be replied on Monday, please bear with me.
My wife has IBS/dyspepsia-non ulcer and was suggested PPI like nexium or rabeperazole. My wife, feeling better, stopped. Her point is nexium or any PPI if taken longer period stop production of acid in the system because of secretion of acid by the drug and that some acid is necessary. I need your guidance. Whether continuous use is harmful as contended by her and secondly whether all ppi are similar in response ?
Answer Hi Harsvadan,
PPIs do block acid secretion, , and their use for long may not be very safe. But their use for months has been found to be safe and treatment of IBS may not require longer therapy. Ofcourse all cases of IBS may not respond to PPI.
Ravi Ghooi
