Description:
Simethicone (Flatulex^®) is used as an antiflatulent to relieve symptoms commonly feferred to gas including upper GI bloating pressure, fullness or stuffed feeling. The clinical use of Simethicone is based on its antifoam properties.

Indications:
1. Flatulence, abdominal distention, fullness gas and windy colic: Flatulex^® is an excellent and effective antiflatulent. It is used for relief of the painful symptoms of excess gas in the digestive tract. Such gas is frequently caused by excessive swallowing of air or by eating foods that disagree. Simethicone drop is especially used in infants, acts in the stomach and intestines. The Simethicone enables freeing and eliminating the gas more easily by belching or passing flatus.

2. Large bowel preparation: Addition of Simethicone to a polyethylene glycol bowel preparation products symptomatic improvement prior to investigation in patients undergoing colonoscopy.

3. Treatment of poisoning: Simethicone has an anecdotal use as an antifoaming agent in the management of accidental ingestion of foaming detergents.

Mode of Action:
Simethicone (Flatulex^®) acts in the stomach and intestines to change the surface tension of gas bubbles, enabling them to coalesce, thus gas is freed and eliminated more easily by belching or passing flatus.

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