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Please describe the medication: omeprazole?
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Acid Reflux Med: Treats heartburn, stomach ulcers, gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd), and conditions that cause your stomach to make too much acid, such as zollinger-ellison syndrome, endocrine tumors, and systemic mastocytosis.
Answered 9/28/2016
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Omeprazole: Omeprazole is the generic equivalent of prilosec, the first oral acid-reducer agent of the proton pump inhibitor (ppi) class of drugs.
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