Description
Suggested Use
Adults: Take 1–4 capsules daily with food or as directed by your health-care practitioner. Take with or immediately before a meal/food. Swallow whole; do not crush or chew. Use the smallest effective dose which controls symptoms.
Duration of use: Consult a health-care practitioner for use beyond 4 weeks.
Cautions and warnings:
Cautions and warnings: Consult a health-care practitioner prior to use if you have diabetes, heart disease, or kidney problems; if you are suffering from any serious illness or disease such as pancreatitis, pancreas exocrine insufficiency or cystic fibrosis; if you have allergy to latex or fruits (such as avocado, banana, chestnut, passion fruit, fig, melon, mango, kiwi, pineapple, peach, or tomato); if you have gastrointestinal lesions/ulcers (e.g. peptic ulcer) or excess stomach acid; if you are taking anticoagulant agents, anti-inflammatory agents, or other enzyme products; if you are having surgery. Consult a health-care practitioner if the symptoms persist or worsen.
Contraindications: Do not use if you are pregnant or breast-feeding; after recent surgery; if you are sensitive to pancreatic enzymes; or if you are sensitive to pork proteins.
Known adverse reactions: Hypersensitivity/allergy have been known to occur; in which case, discontinue use. Nausea, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain/epigastric pain and/or heartburn have been known to occur, in which case discontinue use and consult a health-care practitioner.
Ingredients
Each vegetable capsule contains: | |
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Pancreatic enzymes (from porcine [Sus scrofa]) (20,000 USP PC protease, 20,000 USP AGU amylase, 1,600 USP LU lipase). | 200 mg |
Providing: | |
Protease | 20,000 USP |
Amylase | 20,000 USP |
Lipase | 1600 USP |
Betaine hydrochloride | 105.3 mg |
Ox bile (from Bos taurus liver), 45% cholic acids | 64.8 mg |
Papain (from papaya [Carica papaya] fruit) (384,000 FCC PU). | 3.84 mg (384,000 FCC PU) |
Pepsin A (324,000 FCC pepsin A units) | 32.4 mg |
Betaine hydrochloride equivalent to 10 drops of dilute hydrochloric acid USP (United States Pharmacopeia). | |
Other ingredients: Vegetable magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, and silicon dioxide in a non‑GMO vegetable capsule composed of vegetable carbohydrate gum and purified water. |