Maalox Antacid Forte 900/600 Susp 355ml

Maalox® Antacid and Maalox® Antacid Forte are medicines based on aluminium hydroxide (hydrated aluminium oxide) and magnesium hydroxide.

Maalox® Antacid and Maalox® Antacid Forte are indicated for the short-term symptomatic treatment of gastric acidity and gastric pain. This means that you should not use these medicines for more than 14 days without consulting a doctor. It is also important to stop treatment as soon as your symptoms have disappeared.

Short-term symptomatic treatment of gastric acidity (pyrosis) and gastric pain.

Adults

• 10 ml, 4 x a day, 1 hour after meals and at bedtime
• If necessary, an additional dose 2 hours later
• Maximum 7 doses per day

10 ml oral suspension (2 teaspoons) contains 1800 mg hydrated aluminium oxide (= 900 mg aluminium oxide), 600 mg magnesium hydroxide and 227.5 mg sorbitol.

List of excipients:

• Citric acid monohydrate (E330)
• Peppermint essential oil
• Methyl parahydroxybenzoate (E218)
• Propyl parahydroxybenzoate (E216)
• Sodium saccharinate (E954)
• Sorbitol 70% (E420)
• Methylcellulose 4000 cps (E461)
• Simethicone emulsion
• Hydrogen peroxide
• Purified water

The effectiveness of Maalox® Antacid is due to its ability to neutralise acidity, resulting in an increase in pH within physiological limits, and to its anti-pepsin activity and inactivation of lysolecitin and bile salts by adsorption.

Maalox® Antacid does not interfere with a strict de-sodium diet: the maximum amount of sodium (Na+) administered per day is less than 0.04 g.