What is viokase?

Ku-Zyme HP 8,000-30,000-30,000 unit Cap
Drug Name: DIGESTIVE ENZYMES - ORAL
Uses: This medication contains digestive enzymes, which are natural substances needed by the body to help break down and digest food. It is used when the pancreas cannot make or does not release enough digestive enzymes into the gut to digest the food. Depending on the amount of enzymes in your product, it may be used for indigestion, as a supplement, or as replacement therapy (e.g., in chronic pancreatitis, cystic fibrosis, cancer of the pancreas, after surgery on the pancreas or gut).
Posts on viokase (29)
My sweet 4.5 year old cat, has had IBD for most of his life. Our former vet suggested 1.25...
- Jul 26, 2007
I have been diagnosed with Chronic Pancreatitis and since then have seen a gastro doctor. ...
- Jul 26, 2007
Nanny, I have learned more about pancreatitus from reading your advice to others than I hav...
Good Day, I have auto immune chronic pancreatitis, CLL, had colon cancer, and they once tho...
I am a 51 year old diabetic that has been diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis, diabetes -- ...
- Jul 26, 2007
Hi, I was recently diagnosed with IBS, and I have chronic pancreatitis too, I have diarrhea...
- Sep 30, 2008
Confirmed Gastroparesis, as well as Chronic Pancreatitis and IBS. I have had my gallbladde...
recently had a colonoscopy and endo...doc said i was born with a deformed pancreas...his be...
recently had a colonoscopy and endo...doc said i was born with a deformed pancreas...his be...
recently had a colonoscopy and endo...doc said i was born with a deformed pancreas...his be...