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Warning Imodium Liquid Is Not Gluten Free

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ms-sillyak-screwed Enthusiast
ms-sillyak-screwed
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WARNING IMODIUM liquid is NOT GLUTEN FREE

I was reactive to the liquid IMODIUM so I called IOpen Original Shared Link and guess what-- Imodium liquid is NOT free of GLUTEN. BEWARE! It has GLUTEN, SOY in it also has corn and SPLENDA in the liquid.

The woman was very very nice I spoke with, and told me that CORN is what they use as a binder in the pills. And corn is also used in the liquid too.

So for us celiacs that are at the stage of the disease with seconary food allergies to CORN. (Don't kid yourself -We all over time will develop them. It's a fact.) This product although we think it is helping us, we might be doing more unseen damage to our body with the corn.

AND The liquid had GLUTEN! BEWARE!!!

CALL the number yourself and speak up.

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mart Contributor
mart
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Thanks, this is good to know. I'd called last year about the children's liquid Imodium and they were in the process of testing it. Hope my kids don't get D. :angry:

ms-sillyak-screwed Enthusiast
ms-sillyak-screwed
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I'm so troubled by this...

Think about it. Imodium is for many of us what we believe as a life saver. I have trusted them for the last 10-years of my life, and now I find out I'm making myself sicker not knowing. We must stop the madness these big companies are causing us!

This could be the reason we don't get better or we think we do until a relaps...

This is all the more reason why we need to get ingredient labeling on everything! Anything over the counter, Imodium, toothpaste, cosmetics, skin care, the dyes in our pillls, the list goes on.

ms-sillyak-screwed Enthusiast
ms-sillyak-screwed
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I want to keep this threat alive. Or perhaps I'm obsessing; I just can't get this off my mind. This is posted on another thread - but I'm going to clearify what my finding were here too.

Open Original Shared Link. I asked the lady the ingredients in the Imodium liquid and then the pills.

She looked up the liquid and said

LIQUID IMODIUM - CONTAINS GLUTEN (from wheat and grains) she said there is also a flavoring that contains gluten. And SPLENDA is the sweetener they use and it IS CROSS CONTAMINATED with SOY.

PILLS IMODIUM - CONTAINS CORN. That was as far as I got. I didn't ask about SOY I was so upset.

I used my time with her educating her on the simple things important to know. And, I went deeper in hopes my converstation was recorded and logged into the "EARS". I asked her to write down a title of a book, that the brains in their labs should read called "DANGEROUS GRAINS..." I told her of a large grass roots movement happening around the USA of people with celiac disease, their families and friends to provoke change and awareness to big business, drug companies and our government.

And how we are going to demand ingredient labels like on food, but for drugs, beauty products, skin care and everything else... just like us not knowing IMODIUM LIQUID has GLUTEN in it.

I spoke to her about how millions and millions of people with celiac disease rely on Imodium, and how we have believe their product to be a safe drug to use with celiac disease when in fact they are making us sick(er).

Think about this long and hard.

Think of the impact this has had on our health.

Tomorrow I'm going to call my compound RX guy and ask if he can make it, caps or liquid without the poison in IMODIUM. Or what else we can take?

Judyin Philly Enthusiast
Judyin Philly
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I've been badgering them since the liquid went 'thicker mint green' took the plain color liquid for 10 years. then they changed to the 'green' called to ask if it was gluten free...they said they hadn't ck'd on that yet as they were busy 'doing the marketing anaylasis of sales. I was livid and said ...why did you change it...

answer..to make it look more like pepto.... :ph34r: Told them i thought their time would be better spent researching the ingred contents rather than marketing stratigies..

I couldn't figure out why after the change to 'mint' green my 'D' was worse after taking it...

she said the tablets were gluten-free...but of course this was before the labeling laws in 2006.

i think we need to really stay on top of this and get the word out b/c many of us use this product all the time as needed....

thanks so much for the post.

judy in philly

ms-sillyak-screwed Enthusiast
ms-sillyak-screwed
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You are very welcome...

I'm upset and can't get over it - how we trust them, and they are making it worse.

My experience this time has been with the clear cherry/mint liquid Imodium. I took some Imodium because of a loose stool about 2 TBS in the little cap cup. I noticed within 30 minutes, for me I had the awful smell of steatorrhea (diarrhea) that is how I know I have had wheat gluten in my system. Then within minutes I had the rash of celiac DH, all over my torso, it iched and didn't go away for days it was so bad I changed my body soap. The Imodium worked and bound me up. But the rash I questioned myself on it. I keep a food/body journal and I write eveything down and retraced it to that. So, another set back in my recovery... now I know better!

Judyin Philly -- You are so right we need to tell everyone.

gfp Enthusiast
gfp
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Personally I have no problems with corn, after all they need some food grade binder to make tablets and if it wasn't corn based it would be another food deriviative which is potentially going to upset someone.

However the easiest thing is to try and find other loperamide manufacturers that use something you are not intolerant to.

Its a shame they can't just put this on the packets?

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Ursa Major
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Well, another reason why Immodium made me so much sicker last summer! I took the pills, and I am intolerant to corn (all grains).

I agree, ALL medications, over-the-counter as well as prescription should have ALL ingredients listed, whether they are active or inactive (as in binders) makes no difference (and I mean, even very small amounts).

ravenwoodglass Mentor
ravenwoodglass
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This made me want to cry. I lived off multiple daily doses of the stuff for 15 years. I had to to be able to work. The last 5 years I needed it just to go to the store. Sometimes I wonder, cynic that I am if they put this stuff in stomach preperations on purpose. It gets rid of the symptoms temporarily but insures you'll need it again in a couple day. And my doctor wonders why I refuse all meds.

ms-sillyak-screwed Enthusiast
ms-sillyak-screwed
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Yes, I do believe it is a conspiracy.

Look at the billions spent every year on di·ar·rhe·a -- what does it tell us. They want us to be sick and keep coming back. They'll learn when someone sues then like the families did to Mc Donalds for being liars about what was really in the product.

This is why many of us are getting sicker, and not better unknowingly -talking Imodium.

Open Original Shared Link Medical Breakthroughs. I watched it at 3 a.m. it was worth it. He had on several types of brains in the medical community. Worth reading the transcripts. They have found a link to a high fiber diet and colon cancer. Hello celiac disease! They talked about breastfeed babies don't get di·ar·rhe·a, hello again!

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DOCKLEARFAN Apprentice
DOCKLEARFAN
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I just got a perscription for Loperamide Caplets manufactured by Mylan.

Has anyone checked these caplets out to see if there gluten free? I read another thread

here and she said that it was gluten free EXCEPT it was from a DIFFERENT manufacturer:(

I guess my only recourse is to email Mylan and hope for a response.

Moongirl Community Regular
Moongirl
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I just got a perscription for Loperamide Caplets manufactured by Mylan.

Has anyone checked these caplets out to see if there gluten free? I read another thread

here and she said that it was gluten free EXCEPT it was from a DIFFERENT manufacturer:(

I guess my only recourse is to email Mylan and hope for a response.

If my memory serves correctly, Mylan Pham. does not make any meds that contain gluten....

DOCKLEARFAN Apprentice
DOCKLEARFAN
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If my memory serves correctly, Mylan Pham. does not make any meds that contain gluten....

Can anyone confirm this? I need to be positive...

btw thanks moongirl!!

penguin Community Regular
penguin
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Can anyone confirm this? I need to be positive...

btw thanks moongirl!!

The only way to confirm is to call the company yourself. You never know when other people called or what they were calling about.

DOCKLEARFAN Apprentice
DOCKLEARFAN
Posted

I just called Mylan and they said the following.

"ALL products manufactured by Mylan are Gluten Free. There isn't Wheat, Oats, Barley, Rye, Spelt in the manufacturing process."

So to recap Loperamide (generic for Imodium) is GLUTEN FREE !!!!!!!!

mle-ii Explorer
mle-ii
Posted
I just called Mylan and they said the following.

"ALL products manufactured by Mylan are Gluten Free. There isn't Wheat, Oats, Barley, Rye, Spelt in the manufacturing process."

So to recap Loperamide (generic for Imodium) is GLUTEN FREE !!!!!!!!

On that note, I have have yet to see any confirmation that Imodium contains gluten. Where did someone find this information?

ravenwoodglass Mentor
ravenwoodglass
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On that note, I have have yet to see any confirmation that Imodium contains gluten. Where did someone find this information?

I confirmed it by calling the company when I first read this post. The answer from the immodium rep on the phone was that yes it had gluten and the other products other than the caplets had not been tested yet. I told her how much I appretiated their product containing this poison, and I am afraid I wasn't very nice. When I asked her if they realized that they were making gluten intolerant folks who relied on their product sick her response was that "We don't know of any instances of our product causing problems" Perhaps others might want to email or call the company also.

mle-ii Explorer
mle-ii
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I confirmed it by calling the company when I first read this post. The answer from the immodium rep on the phone was that yes it had gluten and the other products other than the caplets had not been tested yet. I told her how much I appretiated their product containing this poison, and I am afraid I wasn't very nice. When I asked her if they realized that they were making gluten intolerant folks who relied on their product sick her response was that "We don't know of any instances of our product causing problems" Perhaps others might want to email or call the company also.

Very strange indeed. As I called them and they said that all products were gluten free. The only one that they didn't know about was the new formula liquid imodium. They didn't say it did or did not contain gluten only that it hadn't been tested yet, so he recommended going to the tablet version.

I guess I'll have to call again.

ravenwoodglass Mentor
ravenwoodglass
Posted
Very strange indeed. As I called them and they said that all products were gluten free. The only one that they didn't know about was the new formula liquid imodium. They didn't say it did or did not contain gluten only that it hadn't been tested yet, so he recommended going to the tablet version.

I guess I'll have to call again.

I think with the issue with the liquid calling again may be the way to go. I called in July because I wanted to take a dose before a long car ride. Body didn't need it but my mind did :( If the product does or did contain gluten I would imagine they would be working to remove it. The more calls with questions the more quickly they will do this. The rep did state that they are now in the process of clinically testing their products and at that point could only tell me for sure that the AD caplets were okay. I expect testing would be completed on the others perhaps by now.

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