Digestive Health Drugs in Nigeria

The Nigerian diet is spicy, the water supply is unreliable, and the result is that stomach remedies are constant sellers: antacids like Gestid for burning after meals, omeprazole and esomeprazole for reflux and ulcers, loperamide for running stomach, hyoscine for cramps, and ORS with zinc for the diarrhoea that is a fact of childhood here. Most are cheap, over-the-counter, and genuinely effective.

Two habits are worth changing. First, treating every stomach pain as 'ulcer' and living on antacids for years — persistent symptoms deserve an H. pylori test, because that infection causes most true ulcers and is curable in two weeks with the right combination. Second, reaching for loperamide in a child's diarrhoea: children need ORS and zinc, not a stopper, and bloody or feverish diarrhoea at any age needs a clinic, not self-treatment.