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What is Digestive Enzymes?

A dietary supplement containing enzymes, designed to aid digestion and assimilation of proteins, fats and carbohydrates.

Reasons taken & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons taken # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
General health 9 0
Slow my ALS progress 2 0
GI problems 2 0
Other 1 0
Constipation 1 0
To sette upset stomach 1 0

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Dosages

  30IU as needed daily 3 daily 4 daily 100 mg daily 726 mg daily 1050 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Digestive Enzymes (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other
3 60% Other: 60%
Course of treatment ended
2 40% Course of treatment ended: 40%

See all 5 patients who’ve stopped taking Digestive Enzymes

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Digestive Enzymes

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0
0
4

Stopped Taking Digestive Enzymes

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

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
0 0%
Usually
0 0%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
0 0%

Report created on November 23, 2009.