Aluminum Hydroxide

Aluminum Hydroxide on the U.S. market: products, makers and brands

How Aluminum Hydroxide appears in the FDA’s National Drug Code Directory — including its dosage forms, strengths, brand names, manufacturers, and FDA-listed product records. These are directory records, not sales or prescription volume.

4 companies list 4 Aluminum Hydroxide product records with the FDA, mostly as topical cream, ointment or gel, oral solution; the earliest marketing or approval year on record is 1983. Brand names on the directory include AlternaGEL, Alu-Cap, Alu-Tab and 4 more; the rest are generics.

Also listed with the FDA, not a patient dose form: Powder (2) — bulk drug substance sold to compounders/manufacturers and multi-item kits. These aren’t counted in the dose-form total above.

Share of FDA-listed product records by manufacturer — FDA National Drug Code Directory. Record counts are not sales or prescription volume.

How widely Aluminum Hydroxide is used (Medicaid data)

A general measure of how commonly Aluminum Hydroxide is prescribed, based on Medicaid — one of the largest public drug programs. The figure below is prescriptions filled in Q1–Q4 2025, summed across every form and brand of the drug.

Think of this as a proxy for how widely Aluminum Hydroxide is used, drawn from freely available public data. Medicaid is just one program — these numbers don’t include Medicare, other government coverage, or commercial and cash-pay prescriptions, so real-world use is higher than what’s shown here.

How commonly is Aluminum Hydroxide prescribed? Of the 1,601 medications we measure, Aluminum Hydroxide ranks #1,311 by Medicaid prescriptions — more than 18% of them.

Source: Medicaid State Drug Utilization Data (CMS), aggregated by generic ingredient — summed across every NDC (all brands, strengths, salt forms and dosage forms) of Aluminum Hydroxide, and across all states and both fee-for-service and managed-care claims. A general popularity signal; it excludes Medicare, commercial insurance and cash prescriptions, so it is not total U.S. use. Based on the 1 of 2 listed Aluminum Hydroxide NDCs with Medicaid activity.

Compare Aluminum Hydroxide products

A representative set of FDA-listed product records for Aluminum Hydroxide — across manufacturers, strengths, and dosage forms, grouped by form with each product’s manufacturer and how the FDA approved it. The same medicine may be made and packaged by different companies, so a single drug can have many directory entries. (It’s also why a refill can look different — a new shape, color, or box — even though it contains the same medication.)

Showing 4 of 4 products — FDA National Drug Code Directory. See every product, package size and price: browse all 4 Aluminum Hydroxide NDCs →

💵 What Aluminum Hydroxide costs pharmacies (NADAC benchmark)

The national average invoice price pharmacies pay for the drug itself, from CMS's NADAC survey (data as of Sep 30, 2026). This is a supply-cost benchmark — not a retail price and not what you'd pay at the counter.

Source: CMS National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC), a survey of retail pharmacy invoice prices. Benchmarks shown are the range across package sizes of a representative product for each form and strength — other manufacturers' products may differ.

Aluminum Hydroxide brand names

Aluminum Hydroxide is sold under 7 brand names in the FDA directory — AlternaGEL, Alu-Cap, Alu-Tab, Amphojel and others. A brand and its generic contain the same active ingredient; the brand name belongs to one company's product.

Who makes Aluminum Hydroxide: manufacturers and labelers

4 companies list Aluminum Hydroxide products with the FDA. By number of product records, the largest are Atlantic Biologicals Corp., Gentell LLC, Rugby Laboratories. Labelers include manufacturers and repackagers; the product in your bottle depends on which one your pharmacy stocks.

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