Can Ranitidine Be Used For Stomach Problems And Stomach Pain?
Hello, my constipation is already 3 days before the chapter and my liver is hurting to my stomach and I ran ranitidine in the evening and evening, tomorrow morning I immediately came out … What I want to ask is whether the drug ranitidine can be used for people with difficult chapters and stomach pain and whether the reaction is the same as what I experienced?
1 Answer:
Hello Shintia Windi, thank you for asking at HealthReplies.com.
Ranitidine is one of the types of drugs that are included in the group of histamine H2 receptor inhibitors (H2 antagonists) which specifically inhibits histamine type H2 receptors, a receptor that functions to produce stomach acid. With the administration of this class of drugs, stomach acid production will decrease so that these class of drugs can be used as one of the drugs of choice in the treatment of peptic ulcers, help reduce heartburn, or other symptoms of heartburn.
Based on the explanation above, it is very clear that this drug cannot be used as a laxative or as a drug that can help launch a bowel movement because the mechanism of the occurrence of bowel movements or the mechanism of constipation is not related to the increase or absence of stomach acid. Therefore, this drug is not recommended to help overcome defecation.
If there is a colleague or family who has a complaint similar to yours, it is advisable to check with your doctor, and not recommended to take ranitidine, because the causes of difficult bowel movements are very diverse and each of these causes requires different therapies.
I hope this helps.
