One of the first warning signs you have an inflamed Achilles tendon is pain in your lower calf, near the back of your heel. Itâs a common injury that makes the tendon swell, stretch, or tear. You can get it from overworking the calf muscle or climbing the stairs. It might stick around for a long time, too.
In order of weight, it contains water, sucrose, dextrose, citric acid, natural flavors, salt, sodium citrate, monopotassium phosphate, gum arabic, Yellow Dye #6, glycerin, ester of rosin, and brominated vegetable oil.
It's active ingredient is calcium carbonate, just like Tums. In tums, each tablet has 500 mgs. The Children's Pepto has 400 mgs in each tablet (the dosage is 1 tablet for 2-5 year olds). Sooo.. there's not much of a difference between the two dosage wise, but I still think you should check with your doc.