In patients with dyspepsia, a common initial management strategy in primary care is to prescribe a course of empiric antisecretory therapy. Lansoprazole and omeprazole as antisecretory agents have been proven effective for treatment of dyspepsia. This study was aimed is to compare the effect of Omeprazole (1 x 20 mg) and Lansoprazole (1x 30 mg) to ambulatory dyspepsia patient by using questionn…
: Studies on the therapeutic efficacy of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) have been recently published. In most of these studies, comparison of only two PPIs have been made. There are few studies on the comparison of four or more PPIs. We aimed to compare the acid inhibitory effects of esomeprazole 40 mg, rabeprazole 20 mg, lansoprazole 30 m…
The American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology guidelines recommend initiating a proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) to prevent gastrointestinal bleeding if patients are receiving concomitant therapy with clopidogrel and aspirin. Recently, concern has been raised regarding the ability of PPIs to decrease the antiplatelet activity of clopidogrel. To date, there are 16 studies that evaluat…
Various plants form the basis of multiple traditional ethnic cuisines and ethnomedicinal practices across the globe. The ethnic cuisines cater to the nutritional, dietary and medicinal requirements of the tribal and rural communities even today. Using literature from various scholarly databases, this study was conducted to consolidate a comprehensive review on the use of Sauropus androgynus (L.…
Page Header USER Username Password Remember me ABOUT THE AUTHORS Sa'roni Sa'roni Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Farmasi dan Obat Tradisional, Balitbangkes. Depkes, Jakarta. Indonesia Tonny Sadjiman Clinical Epidemiologi & Biostatistic Unit, Gajah Mada Faculty of Medicine/RSUP DR.Sardjito, Yogyakarta Indonesia Mochammad Sja'bani Clinical Epidemiologi & Biostatistic Unit, G…
Sauropus androgynus is traditionally consumed by Indonesians and is believed to increase breast milk production during lactation. Lactation, a process of milk synthesis and secretion, occurs with the help of 2 hormones, prolactin and oxytocin. The expressions of genes encoding prolactin and oxytocin were analyzed in lactating BALB/C mice brains using qRT-PCR.
Coleus amboinicus Lour (CA) has been used as a breast milk stimulant (a lactagogue) by Bataknese people in Indonesia for hundreds of years. However, the traditional use of CA is not well documented, and scientific evidence is limited to establish CA as a lactagogue. This investigation was conducted to elucidate the effect of traditional use of CA during the first month of lactation on quantity …
A benefi cial role of probiotics, especially Lactobacillus rhamnosus, in children with atopic dermatitis (AD) has been reported. Their effects are primarily mediated through immune pathways, which need further investigation. This study aimed to investigate clinical and immunologic effects of probiotics in the treatment of children with AD
The definition for probiotics has gradually changed with increasing understanding of the mechanisms by which they influence human health. Health e!ects related to changes in the intestinal micro#ora also accompany or are related to adhesion and immune system e!ects, competitive exclusion or metabolic and nutritional e!ects, with an increasing array of other potential modes of action. Most cl…
The diverse metabolic activities of the mammalian gut microflora are well established (see reviews by Scheline, 1973; Rowland and Walker, 1983; Rowland et al., 1985). It is also clear that many of these reactions catalyzed by the microflora alter the toxicological properties of ingested chemicals and of substances produced by the host and secreted into the gut lumen, for example, bile acids a…