Tagamet and Gastrointestinal inflammation - a phase IV clinical study of FDA data
Summary:
Gastrointestinal inflammation is reported only by a few people who take Tagamet.
The phase IV clinical study analyzes which people take Tagamet and have Gastrointestinal inflammation. It is created by eHealthMe based on reports of 8,681 people who have side effects while taking Tagamet from the FDA, and is updated regularly.
Phase IV trials are used to detect adverse drug outcomes and monitor drug effectiveness in the real world. With medical big data and AI algorithms, eHealthMe is running millions of phase IV trials and makes the results available to the public. Our original studies have been referenced on 600+ medical publications including The Lancet, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, and Nature.
8,681 people reported to have side effects when taking Tagamet.
Among them, 3 people (0.03%) have Gastrointestinal inflammation.
What is Tagamet?
Tagamet has active ingredients of cimetidine. It is often used in gastroesophageal reflux disease. eHealthMe is studying from 8,713 Tagamet users for its effectiveness, alternative drugs and more.
What is Gastrointestinal inflammation?
Gastrointestinal inflammation (inflammation of stomach and intestine) is found to be associated with 772 drugs and 511 conditions by eHealthMe.
Number of Tagamet and Gastrointestinal inflammation reports submitted per year:

Gender of people who have Gastrointestinal inflammation when taking Tagamet *:
- female: 66.67 %
- male: 33.33 %
Age of people who have Gastrointestinal inflammation when taking Tagamet *:
- 0-1: 0.0 %
- 2-9: 0.0 %
- 10-19: 0.0 %
- 20-29: 0.0 %
- 30-39: 0.0 %
- 40-49: 0.0 %
- 50-59: 0.0 %
- 60+: 100 %
Common drugs people take besides Tagamet *:
- Zantac: 2 people, 66.67%
- Nexium 24hr: 2 people, 66.67%
- Tylenol: 1 person, 33.33%
- Rituxan: 1 person, 33.33%
- Prilosec: 1 person, 33.33%
- Kytril: 1 person, 33.33%
- Decadron: 1 person, 33.33%
- Benadryl: 1 person, 33.33%
Common side effects people have besides Gastrointestinal inflammation *:
- Weight Decreased: 2 people, 66.67%
- Pain: 2 people, 66.67%
- Drug Ineffective: 2 people, 66.67%
- Indigestion: 2 people, 66.67%
- Drug Intolerance (drug sensitivity): 2 people, 66.67%
- Soft Tissue Disorder (disease of soft tissue): 2 people, 66.67%
- Lymph Follicular Hypertrophy (an increase in the size of the lymph node follicles): 1 person, 33.33%
- Reticulocyte Count Increased: 1 person, 33.33%
- Haptoglobin Decreased: 1 person, 33.33%
- Fatigue (feeling of tiredness): 1 person, 33.33%
Common conditions people have *:
- Indigestion: 1 person, 33.33%
* Approximation only. Some reports may have incomplete information.
Do you take Tagamet and have Gastrointestinal inflammation?
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Related publications that referenced our studies
- Schwerd T, Pandey S, Yang HT, Bagola K, Jameson E, Jung J, Lachmann RH, Shah N, Patel SY, Booth C, Runz H, "Impaired antibacterial autophagy links granulomatous intestinal inflammation in Niemann–Pick disease type C1 and XIAP deficiency with NOD2 variants in Crohn9s disease", Gut, 2016 Mar .
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How severe was Gastrointestinal inflammation and when was it recovered:
Expand to all the drugs that have ingredients of cimetidine:
Alternative drugs to, pros and cons of Tagamet:
- Tagamet (8,713 reports)
Common Tagamet side effects:
- Abdominal discomfort: 125 reports
- Abdominal distension: 120 reports
- Abdominal pain: 269 reports
- Abdominal pain upper: 201 reports
- Acute kidney failure: 738 reports
- Agranulocytosis (a deficiency of granulocytes in the blood, causing increased vulnerability to infection): 160 reports
- Anaemia (lack of blood): 321 reports
- Appetite - decreased (decreased appetite occurs when you have a reduced desire to eat): 163 reports
- Arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat): 103 reports
- Arthritis (form of joint disorder that involves inflammation of one or more joints): 195 reports
- Asthma: 103 reports
- Back pain: 336 reports
- Blood glucose increased: 116 reports
- Bone disorder: 237 reports
- Bone pain: 134 reports
- Breathing difficulty: 587 reports
- Bronchitis (inflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes): 130 reports
- Cardiac failure congestive: 160 reports
- Cataract (clouding of the lens inside the eye): 117 reports
- Cellulitis (infection under the skin): 134 reports
- Chest pain: 513 reports
- Chills (felling of cold): 127 reports
- Chronic kidney disease: 1,399 reports
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (a progressive disease that makes it hard to breathe): 146 reports
- Constipation: 319 reports
- Coronary heart disease (narrowing or blockage of the coronary arteries): 116 reports
- Cough: 175 reports
- Death: 305 reports
- Deep venous thrombosis (blood clot in a major vein that usually develops in the legs and/or pelvis): 123 reports
- Dehydration (dryness resulting from the removal of water): 165 reports
- Depression: 385 reports
- Dermatitis (inflammation of the skin resulting from direct irritation by an external agent or an allergic reaction to it): 104 reports
- Diabetes: 116 reports
- Diarrhea: 449 reports
- Dizziness: 330 reports
- Drug hypersensitivity: 103 reports
- Drug ineffective: 430 reports
- Emotional distress: 108 reports
- Fainting (loss of consciousness and postural tone): 150 reports
- Fall: 293 reports
- Fatigue (feeling of tiredness): 508 reports
- Fever: 403 reports
- Foot fracture: 137 reports
- Gait disturbance: 136 reports
- Gastric ulcer (stomach ulcer): 172 reports
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (a condition in which stomach contents leak backward from the stomach into the oesophagus): 347 reports
- Gastrointestinal haemorrhage (bleeding gastrointestinal tract): 114 reports
- Haemoglobin decreased: 126 reports
- Hair loss: 154 reports
- Headache (pain in head): 317 reports
- Head injury: 104 reports
- Heart attack: 196 reports
- High blood cholesterol: 135 reports
- High blood pressure: 385 reports
- Hypersensitivity: 246 reports
- Hypoaesthesia (reduced sense of touch or sensation): 187 reports
- Hypokalemia (low potassium): 120 reports
- Hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure): 299 reports
- Indigestion: 195 reports
- Injury: 164 reports
- Insomnia (sleeplessness): 234 reports
- Interstitial nephritis (inflammation of the kidney): 133 reports
- Intervertebral disc protrusion (spinal disc protrusion): 120 reports
- Itching: 249 reports
- Joint pain: 304 reports
- Loss of consciousness: 133 reports
- Lung disorder (lung disease): 122 reports
- Malaise (a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness): 245 reports
- Mitral valve incompetence (inefficient heart valve): 114 reports
- Multiple fractures: 102 reports
- Muscle aches (muscle pain): 117 reports
- Muscle spasms (muscle contraction): 114 reports
- Nausea (feeling of having an urge to vomit): 705 reports
- Nausea and vomiting: 408 reports
- Neck pain: 143 reports
- Nephrogenic anaemia (anaemia due to kidney disease): 107 reports
- Oedema (fluid collection in tissue): 118 reports
- Oedema peripheral (superficial swelling): 258 reports
- Osteoarthritis (a joint disease caused by cartilage loss in a joint): 215 reports
- Osteomyelitis (infection of bone): 167 reports
- Osteonecrosis of jaw (death of bone of jaw): 158 reports
- Osteopenia (a condition where bone mineral density is lower than normal): 121 reports
- Osteoporosis (bones weak and more likely to break): 297 reports
- Pain: 475 reports
- Pain in extremity: 244 reports
- Pain in jaw: 146 reports
- Palmar-plantar erythrodysaesthesia syndrome (hand-foot syndrome): 103 reports
- Pancytopenia (medical condition in which there is a reduction in the number of red and white blood cells, as well as platelets): 105 reports
- Paraesthesia (sensation of tingling, tickling, prickling, pricking, or burning of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect): 145 reports
- Pleural effusion (water on the lungs): 207 reports
- Pneumonia: 270 reports
- Rashes (redness): 397 reports
- Rectal haemorrhage (bleeding from anus): 113 reports
- Renal failure acute (rapid kidney dysfunction): 108 reports
- Renal impairment (severely reduced kidney function): 166 reports
- Renal injury (kidney injury): 336 reports
- Respiratory acidosis (respiratory failure or ventilatory failure, causes the ph of blood and other bodily fluids to decrease): 112 reports
- Sepsis (a severe blood infection that can lead to organ failure and death): 154 reports
- Sinusitis (inflammation of sinus): 141 reports
- Skin blushing/flushing (a sudden reddening of the face, neck): 125 reports
- Spinal osteoarthritis (joint cartilage loss in spine): 144 reports
- Stable angina (a constant chest pain): 101 reports
- Stomatitis (inflammation of mucous membrane of mouth): 122 reports
- Stress and anxiety: 327 reports
- Stroke (sudden death of a portion of the brain cells due to a lack of oxygen): 122 reports
- Swallowing difficulty: 196 reports
- Swelling: 168 reports
- Thrombocytopenia (decrease of platelets in blood): 252 reports
- Tooth extraction: 121 reports
- Urinary tract infection: 157 reports
- Urticaria (rash of round, red welts on the skin that itch intensely): 111 reports
- Vision blurred: 124 reports
- Weakness: 405 reports
- Weight decreased: 253 reports
- Weight increased: 102 reports
- White blood cell count decreased: 115 reports
Browse all side effects of Tagamet:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y zGastrointestinal inflammation treatments and more:
- Gastrointestinal inflammation (7,706 reports)
COVID vaccines that are related to Gastrointestinal inflammation:
- Gastrointestinal inflammation in Moderna COVID Vaccine
- Gastrointestinal inflammation in Pfizer BioNTech Covid Vaccine
- Gastrointestinal inflammation in Johnson and Johnson Covid Vaccine
Common drugs associated with Gastrointestinal inflammation:
- Amlodipine: 113 reports
- Aspirin: 187 reports
- Calcium: 154 reports
- Cyclophosphamide: 139 reports
- Enbrel: 126 reports
- Humira: 2,705 reports
- Ibu: 118 reports
- Ibuprofen: 125 reports
- Imuran: 166 reports
- Metformin: 113 reports
- Methotrexate: 461 reports
- Morphine: 111 reports
- Nexium: 135 reports
- Omeprazole: 285 reports
- Pantoprazole: 207 reports
- Pentasa: 133 reports
- Prednisone: 611 reports
- Remicade: 268 reports
- Synthroid: 127 reports
- Vitamin b12: 142 reports
- Vitamin d: 213 reports
All the drugs that are associated with Gastrointestinal inflammation:
- Gastrointestinal inflammation (772 drugs)
Common conditions associated with Gastrointestinal inflammation:
- Ankylosing spondylitis: 101 reports
- Blood pressure increased: 331 reports
- Crohn's disease: 2,655 reports
- Crohns disease: 2,655 reports
- Feeling uptight: 108 reports
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease: 144 reports
- Hbp: 350 reports
- High blood cholesterol: 123 reports
- High blood pressure: 350 reports
- Hyperlipidemia: 123 reports
- Hypertension: 350 reports
- Ileitis: 2,655 reports
- Inflammatory bowel disease - crohn's disease: 2,655 reports
- Lipid test: 130 reports
- Lipoprotein test: 123 reports
- Multiple sclerosis: 115 reports
- Pain: 224 reports
- Pain management: 224 reports
- Psoriatic arthropathy aggravated: 126 reports
- Rheumatoid arthritis: 327 reports
- Stress and anxiety: 108 reports
- Uc: 527 reports
- Ulcerative colitis: 527 reports
All the conditions that are associated with Gastrointestinal inflammation:
- Gastrointestinal inflammation (511 conditions)
How the study uses the data?
The study uses data from the FDA. It is based on cimetidine (the active ingredients of Tagamet) and Tagamet (the brand name). Other drugs that have the same active ingredients (e.g. generic drugs) are not considered. Dosage of drugs is not considered in the study.
Who is eHealthMe?
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