Active Ingredient: Omeprazole
Treatment of Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:
Oral
20 - 120 mg
From 10 To 60 mg 2 time(s) per day every day
In patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome the dose should be individually adjusted and treatment continued as long as clinically indicated. The recommended initial dose is Omeprazole 60mg daily. All patients with severe disease and inadequate response to other therapies have been effectively controlled and more than 90% of the patients maintained on doses of Omeprazole 20-120mg daily. When dose exceed omeprazole 80mg daily, the dose should be divided and given twice daily.
It should be taken in the morning.
Intravenous
60 - 120 mg
From 30 To 60 mg 2 time(s) per day every day
60 mg
In patients with Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome the recommended initial dose of omeprazole given intravenously is 60 mg daily. Higher daily doses may be required and the dose should be adjusted individually. When doses exceed 60 mg daily, the dose should be divided and given twice daily.
Omeprazole is to be administered in an intravenous infusion for 20-30 minutes.
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