“…Both H 2 blockers and PPIs can control acid hypersecretion in all patients who can take oral medications and are cooperative [2,8,32,57,172,173]. The preferred drugs are now PPIs, because of their long duration of action [8,32,57,172,174,175,176,177,178]. H 2 blockers to be effective are usually required at higher doses than used in conventional peptic disease (frequently up to 10 times the usual dose) and 4-6 h dosing is frequent [2,3,57,75].…”