Tagamet

It is used to treat and relieve:

• the symptoms of peptic ulcers which occur in the stomach or intestine (gut)
• oesophageal reflux disease which can be caused when food and acid from the stomach washes back into the food pipe (oesophagus). This can cause a burning feeling in the chest known as heartburn
• a rare condition called Zollinger-Ellison syndrome when the stomach produces very large amounts of acid.