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What is Digestive Enzymes?

Digestive enzymes are found in a dietary supplement containing enzymes, designed to aid digestion and assimilation of proteins, fats and carbohydrates.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
General health 20 2 Efficacy_slight Efficacy_none
Bowel irritability 10 1 Efficacy_cant_tell
Other 9 2 Efficacy_major Efficacy_cant_tell
Support digestive health 6 1 Efficacy_moderate
Digestive problems 5 0
Bowel problems 4 0

See all 65 patients currently taking Digestive Enzymes

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 2
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 8

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Digestive Enzymes

Diarrhea 1
Cholecystitis 1

Reported Dosages

Frequently reported dosages based on patients currently taking Digestive Enzymes. See all 37 dosages ►

  daily 1other as needed 1 other daily 2 other daily 2 mg daily 3 other daily 4 other daily 6 other daily 100 mg daily 1,000 mg daily
  10 Number of Patients: 10 2 Number of Patients: 2 6 Number of Patients: 6 5 Number of Patients: 5 3 Number of Patients: 3 8 Number of Patients: 8 2 Number of Patients: 2 2 Number of Patients: 2 2 Number of Patients: 2 2 Number of Patients: 2  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Digestive Enzymes (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 5   Other: 26%
Course of treatment ended 4   Course of treatment ended: 21%
Expense 3   Expense: 16%
Did not seem to work 3   Did not seem to work: 16%
Side effects too severe 2   Side effects too severe: 11%
Doctor's advice 1   Doctor's advice: 5%
Personal research 1   Personal research: 5%

See all 15 patients who’ve stopped taking Digestive Enzymes

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Digestive Enzymes

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0

Stopped Taking Digestive Enzymes

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Digestive Enzymes

Always
 5 50%
Usually
 5 50%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Digestive Enzymes

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 2 20%
A little
 2 20%
Not at all
 6 60%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Digestive Enzymes

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 1 20%
$25-49
 2 40%
< $25
 2 40%

Report created on May 24, 2012.