Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet
Calcium carbonate / famotidine / magnesium hydroxide is an over-the-counter chewable tablet that relieves heartburn linked to acid indigestion and sour stomach.
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⚡ Quick answers about Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet
What is this tablet for?
It relieves heartburn that comes with acid indigestion and sour stomach. It is an over-the-counter product, sold under names like Pepcid Complete and TRAVEL BASIX.
See it in the FAQ →How do I take it?
Chew one tablet completely before swallowing. Please don't swallow it whole. Don't take more than 2 chewable tablets in 24 hours.
See it in the FAQ →Can my child use it?
It's labeled for adults and children 12 and older. If your child is under 12, check with a doctor first.
See it in the FAQ →How long can I keep using it?
Stop and talk to a doctor if you need it for more than 14 days, or if your heartburn continues or gets worse. Heartburn lasting over 3 months should also be checked.
See it in the FAQ →🧬 Where this information comes from Click to expand
The clinical label records used on this page are FDA-filed Structured Product Labeling (SPL) retrieved through openFDA. We identified 1 clinical label set within the page’s selected clinical scope after exact ingredient or ingredient-combination matching and applicable route/form matching. Forms, routes, brands, labelers, strengths, and NDC product-record counts are built separately from matching FDA National Drug Code Directory records. The linked DailyMed document is a representative official source for verification, not the page’s only clinical source. View the linked label on DailyMed →
How we combine label and product data →📖 Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet: Patient Information Guide
A plain-language walkthrough of Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet — what it treats, how it works, how it’s taken, side effects, warnings and interactions. Tap any section to expand it.
What Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet is used for
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This combination chewable tablet is used for one purpose.
- Relieving heartburn associated with acid indigestion and sour stomach (Pepcid Complete and TRAVEL BASIX chewable tablets)
How Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet is taken (dosage)
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This is a chewable tablet taken by mouth. Adults and children 12 and older chew one tablet completely before swallowing. Never swallow it whole.
- Do not use more than 2 chewable tablets in 24 hours.
- Children under 12: ask a doctor first.
- Follow your product label and your prescriber or pharmacist.
Dosing details from the FDA-approved label
From the Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet prescribing information (“Dosage and Administration”). Doses are set by your prescriber for your product, condition, kidney function and age — never change a dose on your own.
Read the label’s full dosing text
Directions adults and children 12 years and over: do not swallow tablet whole: chew completely to relieve symptoms, chew 1 tablet before swallowing. do not use more than 2 chewable tablets in 24 hours children under 12 years: ask a doctor
Read the full Dosage and Administration section on DailyMed →
Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet warnings and precautions
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- Do not use if you have trouble or pain swallowing food, vomiting with blood, or bloody or black stools. These may be signs of a serious condition. See your doctor.
- Do not use if you are allergic to famotidine or other acid reducers.
- Stop use and ask a doctor if heartburn continues or worsens.
- Stop use and ask a doctor if you need it for more than 14 days.
- Get medical help for chest pain or shoulder pain with shortness of breath, sweating, pain spreading to the arms, neck or shoulders, or lightheadedness.
Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet interactions: what it interacts with
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Take extra care if you use other medicines.
- Prescription drugs: antacids and acid reducers may interact with certain ones, so ask a doctor or pharmacist first.
- Other acid reducers: do not use this product with them.
Not a complete list. The label covers the interactions the manufacturer studied or reported, and our own interaction database does not cover every medicine either. Bring your full medication list, including vitamins and herbal products, to your pharmacist.
Before taking Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet
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- Allergy to famotidine or other acid reducers
- Heartburn for over 3 months
- Heartburn with lightheadedness, sweating, or dizziness
- Frequent chest pain or frequent wheezing, particularly with heartburn
- Unexplained weight loss, nausea or vomiting, or stomach pain
- Kidney disease
- Children under 12: ask a doctor
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding: ask a health professional before use
Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet overdose: if you take too much
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In case of overdose, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away at 1-800-222-1222.
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🩺 Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet: pharmacist answers to common questions
Quick, plain-English answers to the questions patients ask most about Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet — the kind of thing our pharmacy team would talk through with you at the counter.
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💊 Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet forms and strengths (how it comes)
Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet is available in 1 form. Different forms and brands can have different approved uses, doses, schedules, and directions. Follow the instructions for your exact product, and do not switch forms without guidance from your prescriber or pharmacist.
Chewable tablet
How this form is used
- Pepcid Complete and TRAVEL BASIX relieve heartburn associated with acid indigestion and sour stomach.
- Pepcid Complete and TRAVEL BASIX: chew 1 tablet completely before swallowing. Do not swallow whole.
- Pepcid Complete and TRAVEL BASIX: do not use more than 2 chewable tablets in 24 hours.
- Pepcid Complete and TRAVEL BASIX: for children under 12, ask a doctor.
🖼️ What Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet products look like
Images from the FDA-filed labels on DailyMed — packaging and, where the labeler provides one, the tablet or capsule itself. Appearance varies by manufacturer; your pharmacy's product may differ.
Source: DailyMed label media (National Library of Medicine).
📊 Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet on the U.S. market: products, makers and brands
How Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet 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.
1 company lists 8 Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet product records with the FDA, mostly as chewable tablet; the earliest marketing or approval year on record is 2020. Brand names on the directory include Pepcid Complete; the rest are generics.
🔍 Compare Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet products
A representative set of FDA-listed product records for Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet — 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.)
| Strength | Route | Manufacturer / Labeler | Category ⓘ | Details |
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| MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE 165 mg/1; FAMOTIDINE 10 mg/1; CALCIUM CARBONATE 800 mg | Oral | Lil' Drug Store Products, Inc. × 4 listings | NDA | View NDC → |
| 800; 10; 165 mg/1; mg/1; mg | Oral | Lil' Drug Store Products, Inc. × 4 listings | NDA | View NDC → |
Showing 8 of 8 products — FDA National Drug Code Directory. See every product, package size and price: browse all 8 Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet NDCs →
📈 Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet side effects reported to the FDA (FAERS)
After a medicine reaches the market, patients, doctors and drugmakers can send the FDA reports of problems they think may be linked to it. Here’s what’s been reported for Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet — a signal of what to watch for, not proof the drug caused it.
Source: openFDA, from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS). These are voluntary reports — they don’t prove the drug caused the effect, and counts reflect how often something was reported, not how often it actually happens. Reports also often name the very problem the medicine is taken for — a common reason to file one is that the drug didn’t help — so for a pain reliever you may see “pain” high on the list; that points to why the report was filed, not to the drug causing the symptom. This counts every report that lists Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet in any role, so the total runs higher than the FDA’s official dashboard, which counts only cases where the drug is the suspect. For the authoritative figures, see the FDA FAERS Public Dashboard. Always talk to your pharmacist or doctor.
🏛️ Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet FDA approval history
How Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet went from FDA review to the pharmacy shelf — the key milestones in its regulatory journey.
Source: Drugs@FDA.
🚨 Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet recall history
A recall is when a specific batch of a medicine is pulled from the market — usually a manufacturing issue, not a problem with the drug itself. Class I is most serious, Class III least.
No recall of any Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet product is on record in the FDA enforcement database.
✅No recalls found for Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet in the FDA databaseSource: openFDA drug enforcement (recall) reports.
📦 Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet supply and shortage status
Whether Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet is in short supply in the U.S. right now, plus any shortage history the FDA has on record. A shortage usually reflects a manufacturing or demand issue — not a safety problem with the drug.
Source: openFDA, from the FDA Drug Shortages database.
🏷️ Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet brand names
Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet is sold under one brand name in the FDA directory — Pepcid Complete. A brand and its generic contain the same active ingredient; the brand name belongs to one company's product.
🏭 Who makes Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet: manufacturers and labelers
One company lists Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet products with the FDA. By number of product records, the largest are Lil' Drug Store Products, Inc.. Labelers include manufacturers and repackagers; the product in your bottle depends on which one your pharmacy stocks.
Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet drug class (RxNorm)
Calcium Carbonate / Famotidine / Magnesium Hydroxide Chewable Tablet belongs to the Calcium compounds class.
Classified by RxNorm RxClass — the U.S. National Library of Medicine's standardized drug-classification service (Established Pharmacologic Class from the FDA, the ATC drug family from the WHO, and mechanism of action). Reference only, not medical advice.
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How we combine label and product data
HelloPharmacist combines public FDA and NLM records; we don’t author the underlying clinical facts. We identified 1 FDA-filed SPL label set within the page’s selected clinical scope after exact ingredient or ingredient-combination matching and applicable route/form matching. The representative label is the starting point for the displayed reference monograph; the 12 largest stored in-scope SPL records, which may include that representative, are compared section by section, and the longest available version of each section is retained. Forms, routes, brands, labelers, product-listed strengths, and product-record counts are aggregated separately from ingredient-matched FDA NDC Directory records; package records listed above are associated with the linked SPL; and the normalized concept hierarchy comes from NLM RxNorm.
For canonical ingredient pages, bounded product-attributed indication and administration excerpts may be added to the AI evidence, and the generator is instructed to preserve available product, brand, route, and form qualifiers instead of treating one label as universal. Where a section is identified as AI-written, its plain-language text is generated from bounded label evidence. New draft drug pages remain in the admin review queue before first publication. Lil' Drug Store Products, Inc. is the representative DailyMed label linked for verification and dates; it is not the sole source used for the page.
This is general education, not medical advice — always consult your doctor or pharmacist about your medications and any medical condition. For the exact wording of the linked representative label, view that label on DailyMed; some displayed composite sections may come from other in-scope SPL labels. Learn how we use AI and our data sources & update cadence.