Consumer Information for: PANTOPRAZOLE

BEFORE you use PANTOPRAZOLE talk to your doctor or pharmacist:

• about all health problems you have now or have had in the past, including liver problems;
• about all other medicines you take, including ones you can get without a prescription;
• if you are taking atazanavir sulphate advise your doctor as this may interact with PANTOPRAZOLE;
• if you are allergic to pantoprazole or to the non-medicinal ingredients which are present in PANTOPRAZOLE;
• if you are pregnant, plan to become pregnant or are breastfeeding. Excretion into human milk has been reported, discuss this with your doctor;
• if you suffer unexplained weight loss, recurrent vomiting or vomiting blood, dark stools, fatigue (anemia) or difficulty in swallowing;
• if you have severe and/or persistent diarrhea, because products which reduce stomach acid have been associated with a small increase in infectious diarrhea;
• if you experience any cardiovascular (e.g. heart) or neurological (e.g. brain) symptoms including palpitations (rapid heartbeat), dizziness, seizures, and tetany (muscle condition with symptoms such as twitching, spasms, cramps and convulsions) as these may be signs of hypomagnesaemia (low magnesium levels in the body).

People who take multiple daily doses of proton pump inhibitor medicines for a long period of time (a year or longer) may have an increased risk of fractures of the hip, wrist or spine. You should take PANTOPRAZOLE exactly as prescribed, at the lowest dose possible for your treatment and for the shortest time needed. Talk to your doctor about your risk of bone fracture if you take PANTOPRAZOLE.