Medicine – Buscopan Plus

Buscopan Plus Tablet is manufactured by Boehringer Ingelheim (Phils), Inc. and distributed by Metro Drug Distribution. It contains 10 mg of Hyoscine-N-butylbromide, and 500 mg of paracetamol.

Its approved therapeutic usage as listed in MIMS Philippines: Paroxysmal pain in diseases of the stomach or intestine, spastic pain & functional disorders in the biliary & urinary tracts & female uterine organs (eg dysmenorrhea).

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Constant burping in relation to no gallbladder

I’m now annoyed with the constant burping I am experiencing.

It is more frequent now than the days after my lap chole (laparoscopic cholecystectomy) surgery. After I got discharged from the Cebu Doctor’s Hospital, I experienced some burping and I just thought it was the remaining air that the doctors pumped into my stomach during removal of my gallbladder. I felt bloated for around 2 weeks after the procedure and the burping goes on. So I thought it was normal to have a frequent burping.

But those times, the gas came out not as often as today. Not as frequent as today that I burped almost every after 5 minutes. I tried to count how many burp I got for a day but lost track. I only noticed this constant burping after my hospitalization last December. And I only thought that it was due to medicines I was taking. Now that I am not taking any medications, I experienced this constant burping.
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