Ursodeoxycholic Acid Price in Bangladesh

Ursodeoxycholic acid, usually shortened to UDCA, is a natural bile acid given as a tablet. It thins bile and improves its flow, which helps dissolve some small cholesterol gallstones, and it is used for several liver conditions where bile does not drain well, including itching of the liver in pregnancy. This shelf also carries obeticholic acid, a specialist medicine for one long-term liver disease. Neither is a quick fix: courses run for months.

Anti-Gallstones sits under Intestinal Secretions.

What These Medicines Are Used For

Condition	Medicine	Course
Small cholesterol gallstones	UDCA	Six months to two years
Liver itching in pregnancy	UDCA	Until delivery
Primary biliary cholangitis	UDCA, then obeticholic acid if needed	Long term, specialist-led
Preventing stones during rapid weight loss	UDCA	During the weight-loss period

Which Gallstones It Can Dissolve

UDCA only works on small stones made mostly of cholesterol, in a gallbladder that still empties normally. Large stones, calcified stones and a gallbladder full of stones do not dissolve. Even when they do, stones often return after the course ends. An ultrasound, and sometimes an X-ray, tells the doctor whether tablets are worth trying or whether surgery is the better route.

Tablets or Surgery

People who have had repeated attacks of gallstone pain, an inflamed gallbladder, jaundice or pancreatitis are usually advised to have the gallbladder removed by keyhole surgery. Tablets are kept for those with small stones and mild symptoms, or for whom surgery is risky. Stones found by chance on a scan, causing no symptoms, often need no treatment at all.

Gallstone Pain: When It Is an Emergency

Typical gallstone pain is a severe ache under the right ribs or in the upper belly, often after a fatty meal, lasting from half an hour to several hours. Pain with fever and shivering, yellow eyes, dark urine or pale stools, or pain spreading to the back with vomiting needs hospital the same day.

Itching of the Liver in Pregnancy

Intense itching of the palms and soles in the last months of pregnancy, without a rash, can be a liver condition called obstetric cholestasis. A blood test confirms it. UDCA eases the itching and improves liver tests, and the obstetrician plans closer monitoring of the baby and the timing of delivery. Report this kind of itching rather than treating it with creams alone.

How to Take UDCA

• With food — often the evening meal, or split through the day.
• Months, not weeks — gallstone courses need regular ultrasound checks.
• Keep antacids apart — aluminium antacids reduce absorption.
• Loose stools — the commonest side effect; tell the doctor if they persist.

Fatty Liver

UDCA is sometimes prescribed for fatty liver, but the evidence that it reverses fatty liver is limited. What reliably helps is losing weight gradually, cutting sugary drinks and fried food, controlling diabetes, and regular activity. Weight loss that is too fast can itself trigger gallstones, which is one situation where UDCA is used preventively.

Obeticholic Acid

Obeticholic acid is used for primary biliary cholangitis when UDCA alone has not been enough. It can worsen itching and needs careful dosing by a liver specialist, especially in people with advanced cirrhosis. It is not a gallstone or fatty-liver medicine.

Food and Gallstones

Regular meals rather than long fasts, less fried and oily food, more fibre from vegetables and pulses, and a healthy weight lower the chance of new stones. Crash diets and skipping meals raise it.

Ursodeoxycholic Acid Price in Bangladesh

UDCA tablets from local manufacturers are moderately priced; obeticholic acid costs considerably more.

Because a dissolving course runs for many months, an ultrasound at six months to see whether the stones are shrinking is what decides whether the rest of the course is worth continuing. Liver-support medicines are on Cholagogues, Cholelitholytics & Hepatic Protectors, Pulmonary Surfactants, and digestive enzymes on Digestive Enzyme.

Before You Order

• Have an ultrasound to confirm stone type and size.
• Plan for a course of many months.
• Take it with food, away from antacids.
• Report itching in late pregnancy.
• Seek urgent care for fever with jaundice.

Manufacturers Stocked Here

Makers of bile-acid medicines listed on Arogga:

• Square Pharmaceuticals PLC. — Urso
• Renata Limited — Ursoren
• The Ibn Sina Pharmaceutical Ind. Ltd. — Ursodex
• ACI Limited — Bilovia obeticholic acid
• The ACME Laboratories Ltd. — Olic obeticholic acid

Popular Product Examples

UDCA tablets:

• Urso 300 Tablet
• Ursoren 300 Tablet
• Ursodex 300 Tablet
• Urso 150 Tablet

Frequently Asked Questions

Can tablets dissolve gallstones?

Sometimes, if the stones are small and made of cholesterol.

How long does UDCA take?

Six months to two years for gallstones.

Is UDCA safe in pregnancy?

It is used for liver itching in late pregnancy, on prescription.

Does UDCA treat fatty liver?

Evidence is limited; weight loss and diet matter most.

Should I take it with food?

Yes.

Will the stones come back?

They often do after the course ends.