Famotidine is referred to as H2 blockers that block one of the types of histamine receptors. That is, it is essentially an antihistamine.
That very histamine makes our stomach secrete more acid.
If you block the histamine receptors in the stomach, then the stomach will not know that it is time to secrete acid, there will be less acid, and any ulcers in the stomach will heal faster.
Doctors insidiously took advantage of this weak spot in the stomach and constantly prevent it from secreting acid. Only it doesn't always work well.
The fact is that different organs inside our abdomen support each other very well. If doctors slip a histamine receptor blocker into the stomach, the stomach can get the information it needs from other sources. There are a bunch of other hormones out there that will intervene and protect the stomach from famotidine.
And these other hormones constantly urge our stomach to secrete acid even under the strict supervision of H2 blockers.
Usually for about a week the stomach behaves quietly, and then it straightens out and begins to be mischievous. Famotidine cannot contain it, and acid breaks through. We don't really like it.
Sometimes such sabotage on the part of other hormones is not immediately noticeable, but only after half a year, when famotidine is suddenly decided to be canceled.
It seemed that the stomach was not too bad, then they still pacified it with famotidine, and after the abolition of famotidine, such a brutal ricochet occurs that acid begins to spray from the stomach in a fountain.
It turns out that everything was not so rosy, and those very other hormones secretly nudged the stomach. Fought, bad guys, with famotidine.
And now such a person lives quietly peacefully with his famotidine and already thinks that life has improved, and you can refuse famotidine, and then there is a real war in the stomach, and the sea is splashing acid.
No matter how scary and suspicious it all sounds, but H2-blockers are still relevant drugs. This is all because they were invented back in the 70s of the last century. These guys are proven. They may not be the most cunning, but there is no great harm from them.
All these strange gastric tricks have been known for a long time, and nothing new or terrible can happen in the stomach. So our famotidine, although there are not enough stars from the sky, is still a workhorse. So do not offend him here without me. Did you agree?
