popular heartburn drug to be curtailed

Posted:
26 Apr 2014, 21:19
by Honey
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ation.htmldomperidone taken by 2 million people to relieve heartburn is to be curtailed after 60 people die
Re: popular heartburn drug to be curtailed

Posted:
26 Apr 2014, 21:23
by wendy
It says do not stop taking this drug if you are prescribed it, but see your GP.
Re: popular heartburn drug to be curtailed

Posted:
27 Apr 2014, 07:45
by annie
I can't understand why this drug was prescribed for heartburn anyway, it is an antiemetic not an antacid & it works by increasing peristalsis, to hurry food along the gastric tract
Re: popular heartburn drug to be curtailed

Posted:
27 Apr 2014, 09:57
by maureenho
tha22222
I have put it in our carers newspaper today
http://thecarersnewspaper.co.uk