Guest guest Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 How do you find out the ingredients?? Zanna http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Art_on_A_Budget/ My daily rantings! www.zannasstory.blogspot.com My picture trail: www.picturetrail.com/xanadoodles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 > > How do you find out the ingredients?? > > Your pharmacist gets a special sheet with every box of the med. The pharmacist can read the special sheet, and show it to you, too. Sometimes the special sheet will list an excipient that neither you nor the pharmacist can recognize as GF or not-GF. For example, an excipient might just say " STARCH " or " VEGETABLE STARCH " . In those cases, either you or the pharmacist or both need to phone the medicine manufacturer and find out the source of the excipient. Sometimes it'll be GF (corn) or sometimes it'll be non-GF (wheat). Sometimes it'll take a while to find out the answer, as the medicine manufacturer will have to phone suppliers and hunt down the answer and then get back to you and/or the pharmacist. You can look online for the medicine type and often find out if it's GF or not. Perhaps you'll find a name brand medicine that is known to be GF. If you can't figure out of the generic is GF, as the doctor to write " name brand only " ... or whatever the magic trick is in YOUR state... to get the name brand GF med. Also, make sure your pharmacist puts in the database that you and every other appropriate persons are GF. That'll alert all pharmacists at your pharmacy that the meds need to be checked for GF status before being given to you, hubby, daughter, etc. Here's a handy thing to print for your pharmacy if they are not already well versed in gluten issues: http://www.alamoceliac.org/pharmaceuticalguide.html Hope this helps! Esther in Rhode Island Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 > How do you find out the ingredients?? =========== I normally go to the manufacturer's website to see if they give info on gluten and dairy, if not I call the company up and ask them. I don't trust other people's lists of gf drugs as things change. shez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 > > > > How do you find out the ingredients?? > > Your pharmacist gets a special sheet with every box of the med. > The pharmacist can read the special sheet, and show it to you, too. > > Hope this helps! Esther in Rhode Island If you ask for the " package insert " the pharmacist should give you a copy. That's the most likely place to find contact info for the drug company. Maureen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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