Nexium Mups

[blondie1007 51]

Can anybody tell me why they call it "mups" ? Is it the same as the nexium capsules ?

[k__ 3]

I don't know why it's called 'mups', but it's a tablet, not a capsule.

[TijuanaPlication 87]

Multiple Unit Pellet System (MUPS™) tablet. The MUPS tablet consists of many enteric-coated granules compressed into a tablet. Source: http://www.pulsus.co...02/nexiumpi.htm

You have to chew them and they get stuck in your teeth so get a pill crusher as they taste really gross! The only way I could get them out of my teeth was to brush them immediately after!!

[Foxbins 625]

You don't chew them--you put them in liquid and the tablet dissolves and you swallow the liquid. You only take them until you can swallow whole pills or capsules.

[TijuanaPlication 87]

The hospital had me chew mine. Sometimes they'd pre-crush them for me, but mostly I chewed them.

You don't chew them--you put them in liquid and the tablet dissolves and you swallow the liquid. You only take them until you can swallow whole pills or capsules.

[Foxbins 625]

From the Nexium website:

"DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION: The tablets should be swallowed whole with sufficient Water. The tablets may also be dispersed in half a glass of non-carbonated Water. No other liquids should be used as the enteric coating may be dissolved. Stir until the tablets disintegrate and drink the liquid with the pellets immediately or within 30 minutes. Rinse the glass with half a glass of water and drink. The pellets must not be chewed or crushed."

You don't want to chew or crush them because the active ingredient is time-released and destroying the outer coating releases the medication immediately. I didn't know I wasn't supposed to be dissolving tablets in apple juice...

Tjplication--You aren't the first to chew them. There was a thread here a while ago about how bad-tasting they were and that person was chewing them also. I am surprised, though, that you were instructed to chew or crush them at the hospital. They should know better.

[TijuanaPlication 87]

Oh well I never suffered reflux so I guess it didn't really matter much, that is absolutely how they had me take them in hospital though.

From the Nexium website:

"DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION: The tablets should be swallowed whole with sufficient Water. The tablets may also be dispersed in half a glass of non-carbonated Water. No other liquids should be used as the enteric coating may be dissolved. Stir until the tablets disintegrate and drink the liquid with the pellets immediately or within 30 minutes. Rinse the glass with half a glass of water and drink. The pellets must not be chewed or crushed."

You don't want to chew or crush them because the active ingredient is time-released and destroying the outer coating releases the medication immediately. I didn't know I wasn't supposed to be dissolving tablets in apple juice...

Tjplication--You aren't the first to chew them. There was a thread here a while ago about how bad-tasting they were and that person was chewing them also. I am surprised, though, that you were instructed to chew or crush them at the hospital. They should know better.