Patent ID: 7357943

Claim:
A pharmaceutical preparation in juice (suspension) form with a viscosity of less than 500 mPa.s (determined with a rotational viscometer) for oral administration of an acid-labile active ingredient where a plurality of individual active ingredient units are dispersed in a thickened base composed of one or more pharmaceutical excipients, wherein the individual active ingredient units are microspheres and wherein the acid-labile active compound is selected from the group consisting of an acid-labile proton pump inhibitor, a salt of an acid-labile proton pump inhibitor with a base and a hydrate of a salt of an acid-labile proton pump inhibitor with a base and is present in the individual active ingredient units in a matrix composed of a mixture comprising at least one solid paraffin and one or more substances selected from the group consisting of a fatty alcohol, a triglyceride and a fatty acid ester, and where the thickened base is aqueous, and at least one thickener selected from the group consisting of substituted celluloses, polyvinylpyrrolidone [polyvidone types], sheet silicates, alginates, alginic acids and mixtures thereof is present as excipient.