Losec contains a medicine omeprazole, an active component which belongs to group of medicines named proton inhibitors of pump (PPI).

Losec is used to consider illnesses which are connected to an additional acid in a stomach. They include:

* Gastroesophageal illness of outflow or GERD (a countercurrent of an acid from a stomach in oesophagus), causing a heartburn and oesophagitis (ignition of a swallowing pipe).

* Stomach ulcers and the diarrhea (diarrhea) connected to an acid which is discomfort after food.

* Losec also it is used in a combination with antibiotics to consider and help to cure the ulcers connected to an infection of a stomach microscopic defect (bacterium) by name Helicobacter pylori.

* It is used to consider rare illness by name Zollinger-Ellison a syndrome (the illness connected to ulcers and strictly increased manufacture of an acid in a stomach).

Losec - type of a medicine of the proton pump named an inhibitor. It works, blocking cells in a stomach which have chemical systems making an acid named proton pumps (protons make an acid when is dismissed in the decision). They operate acid manufacture and let out it in chamber of a stomach. Blocking this system, Losec reduces manufacture of an acid in a stomach.

Losec is supplied as a capsule and as type of a tablet by name MUPS which are easy to swallow and can be dismissed. The entered form also is accessible.