Proton pump inhibitors: When is enough, enough? - Bpac NZ
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The dose is then reduced to 10 mg, daily, for two weeks, and then treatment is stopped. The patient is given a prescription for 20 mg omeprazole to use “as ...


If you suddenly stop to take Pantoprazole (PPI, proton pump inhibitor), the stomach can produce a lot more acid, and make your symptoms (symptoms of rebound hyperacidity) come back . It shall be tapered off slowly, normally over 2-4 weeks (the higher the dose, the longer the taper).

How do you taper medicine?
In general though it will be important to reduce your dose slowly over time, by gradually taking smaller and smaller doses. This is called a tapering plan. It can help to write down your plan with timeframes showing the dates when you'll reduce your dose, by how much, and for how long.


Changes to your dose
Your dose may go up or down.
Once your health problem or condition starts to get better, it's likely that your dose will go down.
Your doctor may reduce your dose before you stop treatment completely. This is to reduce the risk of withdrawal symptoms.
Your dose may go up if your symptoms get worse.
https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/prednisolone/how-and-when-to-ta...

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Note added at 15 perc (2022-09-02 11:58:13 GMT)
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In memoriam Dr. Csákány M. György

That the advice given in the medication leaflet is referring to tapering off is obviously clear by the use of the word "Reduktion", as such "übertätig" does not make any sense at all as it means something along the lines of "eifrig und viel arbeitend, überaus beschäftigt" = busy and hard working, exceedingly busy... which clearly does not collocate with reduction nor does it make any sense at all in the context...

As such it must be a typo and the word you actually need to translate must be "übertägig", which in turn does not seem to be used much in this context either as its definition according to the Duden is: "oberirdisch; nicht im Bergwerk" (above ground) as in the opposite of "untertage" (underground, as in mining) according to other sources also as "ephemer, vergänglich" - obviously not helpful in this case either...

So the only conclusion can be that they are referring to "every other day"!
But to be perfectly honest if you'd asked any ordinary mortal German, they'd probably struggle giving you a definition for "übertägig" in any case, so maybe they should even reconsider their use of the word in the source text...

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Note added at 1 day 4 hrs (2022-09-03 16:21:43 GMT)
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and yes I agree with one of the dict.leo translations to a certain extent: "einen über den anderen Tag" is probably way more commonly used and most Germans would understand what is meant by that epression, however, it is probably a bit too colloquial for a medication regime...