User talk:Pirate hamster

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ANI notice - Malcolm Kendrick
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Famotidine: PPI or H2?
The article and some sources mention it being a PPI multiple times. Can it possibly be both? I am not a pharmacologist.--Quisqualis (talk) 01:30, 7 December 2020 (UTC)


 * No, as far as I know it is just an H2 blocker. They work in quite different ways. A PPI works by turnng off the Proton Pumps in the stomach. An H2 blocker works by "countering the effect of histamine (which stimulates gastric acid), thereby decreasing the amount of acid that the stomach produces. They act directly on the stomach's acid-secreting cells to stop them from making hydrochloric acid". I don't see how it would be possible for Famotidine to do both. Medical sites refer to it as an H2 blocker. This link describes it only as an H2 blocker: https://www.drugs.com/tips/famotidine-patient-tips (Pirate hamster (talk) 22:50, 8 December 2020 (UTC))


 * Drugs.com FTW.--Quisqualis (talk) 23:35, 8 December 2020 (UTC)