Rabeprazole: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Rabeprazole is a medicine sold in the U.S. under one brand. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Available as
- Tablet, delayed release
- Sold as
- Aciphex
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every rabeprazole product we track (1)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
Only one: Aciphex.
What rabeprazole pills look like
Imprint codes, colour and shape from the FDA’s labelling data. Match the imprint on your pill — or search any imprint.
Can you crush or split rabeprazole?
At least one rabeprazoleproduct is labelled to be swallowed whole — crushing an extended-release tablet releases the whole day’s dose at once. Which applies depends on the form you were given.
What each rabeprazole label says about crushing, splitting and chewingHow long rabeprazole keeps
No rabeprazole label we read sets a separate limit for after opening, but they do specify how it must be stored — and the stability behind any date assumes those conditions.
Does rabeprazole expire? The in-use limits and storage rules from its labelsRabeprazole and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for rabeprazole: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadBecause no information is available on the use of rabeprazole during breastfeeding, an alternate drug may be preferred, especially while nursing a newborn or preterm infant.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, record revised June 15, 2025. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about rabeprazole
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 11,403 reports naming rabeprazole, and the FDA flagged 92% of those reports as serious. The effects reported most often — leaving out reports about overdose, misuse or the condition being treated, which dominate the raw list for common medicines:
- nausea745 reports
- diarrhoea660 reports
- dyspnoea621 reports
- malaise543 reports
- arthralgia540 reports
- pneumonia535 reports
- headache490 reports
- pyrexia490 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean rabeprazole caused the effect — anyone can file one, and many describe people taking several medicines for several conditions. Crucially there is no denominator: FAERS does not record how many people took the drug, so these counts cannot be turned into “X% of patients” — a bigger number often just means a more widely used or more talked-about drug. Duplicates exist, and publicity drives reporting. For what is actually established, read the FDA label section above.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved July 26, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Can you take rabeprazole with other medicines?
It depends on the medicine. We check it against the FDA labels rather than guessing: our interaction checker searches each drug's own label for the other and quotes what it says, naming the section it came from. Run rabeprazole against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
What forms does rabeprazole come in?
Across the brands we track, rabeprazole is currently marketed as tablet, delayed release, per the FDA's National Drug Code Directory. Each form is dosed differently — follow the label for the exact product you were prescribed.
Is there a generic rabeprazole?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled rabeprazole product. That does not always mean none exists — it means none appears under a generic name in the FDA data we track. Ask your pharmacist.
Cite this page
- APA
- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Rabeprazole: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/rabeprazole
- MLA
- “Rabeprazole: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/rabeprazole.
We summarise public FDA and NIH sources — for a clinical claim, cite the primary source we link to as well.
Sources: FDA openFDA drug label, National Drug Code Directory, and Enforcement (recall) database. This page reproduces public FDA data and is not medical advice. Dosing is set by your prescriber.
Read the full FDA label for rabeprazole on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.