Nexium contains esomeprazole, an active component which is type of a medicine of pump (PPI) named a proton inhibitor.

Nexium is used to consider illnesses which are connected to an acid in a stomach and a gullet. They include:

* Gastroesophageal illness of outflow (GERD) where the acid escapes from a stomach back in a gullet cause ignition of the swallowing pipe (oesophagitis) and a heartburn (the feeling of burning raising from a stomach or lower breast to a neck).

* Ulcers in a stomach or the top part of the intestines connected to an infection by a microscopic mistake (bacterium) " Helicobacter pylori ". It is considered with combination Nexium and antibiotics.

Nexium works, blocking specific type of a molecule which is made by type of cells in cells of a wall of a stomach which make an acid of a stomach. In blocking this system, Nexium reduces quantity of the made acid of a stomach.

Nexium is supplied as a tablet by name MUPS which are easy to swallow and dissolvable; and in the USA as capsules which the whole is necessary to swallow with a liquid. You should not stop to take this medicine except for advice of your doctor.