to the PP family. Did you Dr ever recommend Entocort? As you probably already know from reading here, this is usually the best medicine for MC, combined with diet. Wishing you all the best, Ant
coatings on vitamins a problem?
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Linda in BC
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Having an Aha!! moment here...I am allergic to Sulfa drugs ( I get Stephen Johnson Syndrome really bad from them (swelling, itching and redness on all soft tissue including palms of hands and soles of feet.) My first GI gave me Asacol (never asked if I was allergic to Sulpha drugs) and this sulpha connection, which I did not know about until reading this post, would explain why, just like you, mfwsunshine, I got sicker and sicker on the Asacol.
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Whoa! Thanks for bringing that up again, Linda, because I completely missed it when mfwsunshine originally mentioned it in her post. 
The problem is, Asacol does not contain sulfasalazine. It contains a derivative of sulfasalazine, mesalamine, and mesalamine does not contain any sulfa compoment. I originally used that quote in an old thread, several years ago, and I just copied it into this thread, without checking it out. Either Asacol must have originally been formulated with sulfasalazine, (which I doubt), or the original author of the article where I got that information, made a mistake.
Anyway, the bottom line is, Asacol does not contain sulfasalazine, nor any other sulfa-based drug.
Sorry that I let this mistake slip through, and allowed it to go so far, before I caught it.
Tex
The problem is, Asacol does not contain sulfasalazine. It contains a derivative of sulfasalazine, mesalamine, and mesalamine does not contain any sulfa compoment. I originally used that quote in an old thread, several years ago, and I just copied it into this thread, without checking it out. Either Asacol must have originally been formulated with sulfasalazine, (which I doubt), or the original author of the article where I got that information, made a mistake.
Anyway, the bottom line is, Asacol does not contain sulfasalazine, nor any other sulfa-based drug.
Sorry that I let this mistake slip through, and allowed it to go so far, before I caught it.
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.
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Linda in BC
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Oh well!