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Gaviscon Information

What's inside Gaviscon

Gaviscon Active Ingredients: aluminum hydroxide, magnesium trisilicate, alginic acid, details.
Gaviscon Dosages & Strengths
Strength Format Route Strength Class
Gaviscon 80 mg-20 mg tablet, chewable oral 1.0 each OTC
Gaviscon 80 mg-20 mg tablet, chewable oral 1.0 each OTC
Gaviscon 80 mg-20 mg tablet, chewable oral 0.0 - OTC

Recent Gaviscon Side Effects

Posted by poppasmurf over 2 years ago
I had taken one chewable tablet, within two minutes I became violently sick and continued to feel very strange. The next d...


Gaviscon in the News

BBC: Reckitt schemed against generics - FiercePharma
Reckitt Benckiser execs bragged in internal documents that they'd blocked generic competition for their Gaviscon stomach med for years--even after the drug ...
Fri Mar 07 12:05:09 -0500 2008

Reckitt Benckise accused of ripping off NHS - Times Online
A drug company is facing accusations of ripping off the NHS with a secret plan to maintain a monopoly in the supply of Gaviscon, the lucrative heartburn ...
Fri Mar 07 04:05:03 -0500 2008

Drug firm accused of cheating NHS - ic Wales
Even though Gaviscon came off patent almost a decade ago, the remedy still dominates the NHS market. The BBC's Newsnight programme has obtained internal ...
Fri Mar 07 09:16:45 -0500 2008


Gaviscon Chemical Information

aluminum hydroxide - An inorganic compound containing aluminum. Used in various immunologic preparations to improve immunogenicity, aluminum hydroxide adjuvant consists of aluminum hydroxide gel in a saline solution. In vaccines, this agent binds to the protein conjugate, resulting in improved antigen processing by the immune system. (NCI04)

magnesium trisilicate

alginic acid





Frequently Reported Side Effects of Gaviscon

violently, groggy, two minutes, chewable tablet
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