Is there any evidence that taking NSAID's with food is protective? I only
wonder because if you give NSAID's as suppositories, they still carry an
ulceration risk, I think via a gastrin mediated pathway.
Paul Galloway
MedWeb UK Ltd. http://www.medweb.co.uk/
-----Original Message-----
From: Katie Law <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 29 July 1998 10:17
Subject: Re: gastroprotection and nsaids
>Fabrizio La Mura <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>(I did not mention any particular pathology: let's pretend to have an
>>healthy female aged 25, who needs to do a 10 days ibuprofen (600 x 2)
>
>In that instance I would consider advice on taking with food, not within
>half an hour of lying down and to consider stopping if pyrosis occurs,
>to be sufficient gastroprotection.
>
>It is, however a question of balancing risk, and depends upon the
>severity of her original problem, the effect it is having on her, the
>effect on her, work and the country's economy if she has time off work
>due to either her condition or the treatment, etc.
>
>KT
>--
>Katie Law
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