Advice to Patients
- Importance of taking before a meal.
- Importance of swallowing capsule intact, without crushing or chewing.
- For orally disintegrating tablets, importance of allowing tablet to dissolve on tongue with or without water, then swallowing particles without chewing.
- Importance of not crushing or chewing granules in prepared suspension.
- Importance of not administering suspension through an enteral administration tube.
- If capsule contents are mixed with food or juice, importance of immediately swallowing mixture without crushing or chewing.
- Importance of informing clinicians of existing or contemplated concomitant therapy, including prescription and OTC drugs. Antacids may be used concomitantly as needed for pain relief.
- Importance of women informing their clinicians if they are or plan to become pregnant or plan to breast-feed.
- Importance of informing patients with phenylketonuria that orally disintegrating tablets contain aspartame.
- Importance of informing patients of other important precautionary information. (See Cautions.)
Preparations
Lansoprazole
| Routes | Dosage Forms | Strengths | Brand Names | Manufacturer |
|---|
| Oral | Capsules, delayed-release (containing enteric-coated granules) | 15 mg |
Prevacid® | TAP Pharmaceuticals |
| | 30 mg |
Prevacid® | TAP Pharmaceuticals |
| For suspension, delayed-release (containing enteric-coated granules) | 15 mg/packet |
Prevacid® | TAP Pharmaceuticals |
| | 30 mg/packet |
Prevacid® | TAP Pharmaceuticals |
| Tablets, delayed-release (containing enteric-coated microgranules), orally disintegrating | 15 mg |
Prevacid®SoluTab® (with aspartame) | TAP Pharmaceuticals |
| | 30 mg |
Prevacid®SoluTab® (with aspartame) | TAP Pharmaceuticals |
| Parenteral | For injection, for IV infusion | 30 mg |
Prevacid® I.V. | TAP Pharmaceuticals |
Lansoprazole Combinations
| Routes | Dosage Forms | Strengths | Brand Names | Manufacturer |
|---|
| Oral | Kit | 7 capsules delayed-release (containing enteric-coated granules), Lansoprazole 15 mg (Prevacid®) 14 tablets, Naproxen 375 mg (Naprosyn®) (with povidone; scored) |
Prevacid® NapraPAC® 375 | TAP Pharmaceuticals |
| | 7 capsules delayed-release (containing enteric-coated granules), Lansoprazole 15 mg (Prevacid®) 14 tablets, Naproxen 500 mg (Naprosyn®) (with povidone; scored) |
Prevacid® NapraPAC® 500 | TAP Pharmaceuticals |
| Kit | 4 Capsules, Amoxicillin (trihydrate) 500 mg (of amoxicillin) (Trimox®) 2 Capsules, delayed-release (containing enteric-coated granules), Lansoprazole, 30 mg (Prevacid®) 2 Tablets, film-coated, Clarithromycin, 500 mg (Biaxin® Filmtab® (with povidone and propylene glycol) |
Prevpac® | TAP Pharmaceuticals |
Comparative Pricing
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| Prevacid 15MG CPDR | TAP | 30/$160.66 or 90/$456.38 |
| Prevacid 30MG CPDR | TAP | 30/$154.31 or 90/$455.2 |
| Prevacid SoluTab 15MG TBDP | TAP | 30/$121.99 or 90/$351.95 |
| Prevacid SoluTab 15MG TBDP | TAP | 100/$461.54 or 300/$1318.65 |
| Prevacid SoluTab 30MG TBDP | TAP | 30/$125.99 or 90/$355.96 |
AHFS Drug Information. © Copyright, 1959-2008, Selected Revisions August 2005. American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Inc., 7272 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland 20814.
† Use is not currently included in the labeling approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.
Remember, keep this and all other medicines out of the reach of children,
never share your medicines with others, and use this medication only for the indication prescribed.
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