Cox-2 inhibitors can interfere with the healing of active gastrointestinal ulcers, which should be successfully treated before the drugs are taken.
C6 skin changes with active ulcers (venous insufficiency ulceration)
Anyone with a currently active ulcer or a healed ulcer who is found to harbor H. pyloris should be treated to eradicate the organism.
Sucralfate is used to treat an active duodenal ulcer.
Sucralfate can heal an active ulcer, but it will not prevent future ulcers from occurring.
In the United States about 4 million people have active peptic ulcers and about 350,000 new cases are diagnosed each year.
The agency approved use of the combination for active duodenal ulcers over a 28-day period.
Prevacid approved for short-term treatment of active benign gastric ulcers and maintenance of healed duodenal ulcer.
Sucralfate is a cytoprotective agent, an oral gastrointestinal medication primarily indicated for the treatment of active duodenal ulcers.
They may be described as excessively active ulcers.