Famotidine

Pepcid · H2 antagonist

Generic
famotidine
Brand
Pepcid
Class
H2 antagonist
Say it
fa-MOE-ti-deen

What technicians need to know

Renal dose adjustment

Commonly mispronounced

"FA-moh-tih-deen"

The -tidine pattern

Famotidine ends in -tidine, which marks a H2 receptor antagonist — used for stomach acid. Learning the suffix families turns roughly 200 separate drugs into about 20 patterns you can reason from. See all the families.

Other h2 antagonists

cimetidine ranitidine

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