Your medicine is called Axid. Its active ingredient is nizatidine. The 150mg capsules are light yellow with dark yellow. The 300mg capsules are light yellow with brown.

Each light and dark yellow capsule has 150mg of nizatidine in it, and each light yellow and brown capsule has 300mg. They also contain the inactive ingredients maize starch, carboxymethyl cellulose, silicone fluid and talc. The 150mg capsules also have magnesium stearate in them and the 300mg capsules have povidone. The gelatine capsules are coloured with E171 and E172.

Axid treats ulcers at the top of the small intestine ('duodenal ulcers') and protects the intestines once they are healed. It is also used to treat and protect your stomach against ulcers that are not cancerous. Axid also treats a type of heartburn called 'reflux oesophagitis'. This is an irritation of your oesophagus, the tube that takes food and liquids into your stomach.

• Have you ever had an allergic reaction after taking Axid or any other medicine of this type? (An allergic reaction may include rash, itching, swelling or breathing difficulties.)
• Are you pregnant or could you be?
• Are you breast-feeding?
• Have you ever had kidney or liver problems

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• Follow your doctor's instructions. Check the label for how many capsules to take and how often to take them. The dose will depend on your illness:
• Duodenal or benign stomach ulcer: one 300mg capsule in the evening, or one 1 50mg capsule in both the morning and evening. You will usually be given enough capsules for 4 weeks, but you may need to take them for another 4 weeks.
• Protecting a healed duodenal or stomach ulcer: one 1 50mg capsule in the evening for up to a year.
• Reflux oesophagitis: usually one 1 50mg capsule twice a day for up to 3 months.

• Swallow the capsules with water.
• You do not have to take Axid capsules with food and you may take them if you are also taking antacids.
• You must take the capsules for as long as your doctor has told you to.
• If you miss a dose, wait and take it as your next dose. After that, just carry on as before.
• If you ever take too many capsules, go to the nearest hospital casualty department or tell your doctor at once.

• Axid may cause side-effects such as an itching skin rash, feeling sweaty, weak, tired or sleepy. Very occasionally patients have developed liver problems or jaundice. If you have any of these side-effects, tell your doctor.
• A few patients have had nausea, fever, bruising, swollen breast tissue (in men), and altered blood test results. It is not known whether nizatidine can cause these symptoms.
• If you have any other ill-effects, tell your doctor. He or she has more information and will tell you what to do.

• Do not take Axid after the 'Use Before' date.
• Keep your capsules at room temperature in a dry safe place and where children cannot see or reach them. Your capsules could harm them.
• If your doctor tells you to stop taking the capsules, we suggest you take them back to the pharmacist who will dispose of them safely. Only keep them if your doctor tells you to.