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Pentasa Information

What's inside Pentasa

Pentasa Active Ingredients: mesalamine, details.
Pentasa Dosages & Strengths
Strength Format Route Strength Class
Pentasa 250 mg capsule, extended release oral 1.0 each OTC
Pentasa 500 mg capsule, extended release oral 1.0 each OTC

Recent Pentasa Side Effects

Posted by patriciakay about 1 month ago
I have been taking 8 500 mg caps of pentasa a day for over seven years for what doctors told me was Crohn's Disease. I just...

Posted by gd1 3 months ago
I took 1g of Pentasa twice a day for a week I couldn't stop urinating and I would also break out in sweat it would be running...

Posted by littlelady about 1 year ago
I am taking it for about 3 months now I feel so depressed! is this normal? I have no appetite or urge to eat as I am afraid o...


Pentasa in the News

Out of the Gate: Shire Rises on Upgrade - CNNMoney.com
Sales of Lialda, which treats colon ulcers, are also strong, but have not decreased sales of another Shire drug, Pentasa, Neibor wrote.
Wed Jan 09 10:26:37 -0500 2008

Arrested: Suspect in prescription drug scam case - WFIE-TV
Thirty-year-old Amram Lashenda Bilal of Headland, AL was arrested for allegedly trying to get the drugs Levothyroxine, Hydrocodone, Pentasa and Metroprolol ...
Thu Jan 03 20:27:08 -0500 2008

Shire snaps up Alba's gastrointestinal drug for $325m - DrugResearcher.com
... to bring these novel therapies to patients." Shire already has a number of mesalamine-related gastrointestinal drugs, including Lialda/Mezavant and Pentasa.
Mon Dec 17 07:56:31 -0500 2007


Pentasa Chemical Information

mesalamine - An agent derived from sulfasalazine, an antiinflammatory agent. Mesalamine may reduce inflammation through inhibition of cyclooxygenase and prostaglandin production. Following rectal or oral administration, only a small amount of mesalamine is absorbed; the remainder, acting topically, reduces bowel inflammation, diarrhea, rectal bleeding and stomach pain. (NCI04)



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