I'm leaving Friday for a trip to California to see my 96-year-old mother, who has fallen and broken her pelvis. She's in the health center of her retirement center, and weak and frail, but holding her own.
My Imodium AD supply is down to 6 tablets, so yesterday I went to buy some more. I went all over town, and none of the six stores (Kroger, Tom Thumb, WalMart, Walgreens, 2 different CVS) had Imodium AD. Is it off the shelves again?
I ended up buying the generic CVS brand. It doesn't state lactose on the label that I can see.
Can anyone tell me if these ingredients make it a safe alternative to Imodium AD for someone sensitive to gluten, dairy, and soy:
Active ingredient: Loperamide HCl
Inactive ingredients: corn starch, D&C yellow #10 aluminum lake, dicalcium phosphate dihydrate, FD&C blue #1 brilliant blue lake, magnesium stearate, microscrystalline cellulose, silica gel.
I called the company, but they only let you leave a message, and although I left one yesterday, they haven't called me back, and I have no high hopes that they will.
One of the pharmacists at CVS told me that it did contain lactose, and when I asked which ingredient, he said it was the corn starch. Can that possibly be right? I asked the pharmacist at the other CVS, and she said no lactose.
Anyway, here I go on a trip, with little control over my food, so I'd like to have Imodium on hand. What to you think about the CVS product?
Martha
help with ingredients, please
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Hi Martha,
Those ingredients appear to be safe to me. I have never heard of corn starch containing lactose — that doesn't make any sense at all. Corn certainly does not contain lactose in its native state. With processing, dextrose, fructose, etc., can be obtained from corn starch, but not lactose. That pharmacist needs a refresher course on sugars. LOL.
I'm sorry to hear about your mom's fall, and I hope that she can recover with a minimum of complications. I hope that your trip goes as smoothly as possible, also. At least maybe it will be warmer in California.
Tex
Those ingredients appear to be safe to me. I have never heard of corn starch containing lactose — that doesn't make any sense at all. Corn certainly does not contain lactose in its native state. With processing, dextrose, fructose, etc., can be obtained from corn starch, but not lactose. That pharmacist needs a refresher course on sugars. LOL.
I'm sorry to hear about your mom's fall, and I hope that she can recover with a minimum of complications. I hope that your trip goes as smoothly as possible, also. At least maybe it will be warmer in California.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Thanks, Tex. I'll take the new pills along with me in addition to my 6 Imodium, and hope I don't need any of them.
Thanks for your good wishes about my mom. We all thought this spelled the end, but she keeps hanging in there. We are all mentally prepared for her to not have many months left, though. She's in a lot of pain from arthritis normally, so the extra pain from the broken pelvis is no picnic. She's on a lot of pain meds.
Thanks for your good wishes about my mom. We all thought this spelled the end, but she keeps hanging in there. We are all mentally prepared for her to not have many months left, though. She's in a lot of pain from arthritis normally, so the extra pain from the broken pelvis is no picnic. She's on a lot of pain meds.
Martha
Martha,
I'm so sorry that your mom has broken her pelvis. I hope your trip goes well and she recognizes you and appreciates your being there.
Gloria
I'm so sorry that your mom has broken her pelvis. I hope your trip goes well and she recognizes you and appreciates your being there.
Oh, I hope it's not difficult to buy Imodium AD again. I'm still using the ones I bought almost two years ago, but I'll be needing more soon. I wonder what's going on?I went all over town, and none of the six stores (Kroger, Tom Thumb, WalMart, Walgreens, 2 different CVS) had Imodium AD. Is it off the shelves again?
Gloria
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