What is all this stuff for ?

[Externet]

TylenolPM inactive ingredients:

 

Benzyl alcohol, black iron oxide, butylparaben, carboxymethyl cellulose sodium, crospovidone, D&C red #28, edetate calcium disodium, FD&C blue #1, FD&C red #40, gelatin, hypromellose, magnesium stearate, methylparaben, microcrystalline cellulose, polyethylene glycol, polysorbate 80, powdered cellulose, pregelatinized starch, propylene glycol, propylparaben, red iron oxide, sodium citrate, sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium propionate, sodium starch glycolate, titanium dioxide, yellow iron oxide

 

Why not sustitute all those with wheat flour, to say something ? Do we need to put all that in our bodies ?

[Rickdog]

What if you were a Celiac ?, Wheat flour, would kill you.

 

Most of the inactive ingredients in any drug you use to take, are formulations made in order to not produce adverse reactions, when given the drug.

Sometimes the drug you need alone, has a horrible taste, or needs to reach a certain part of your digestive system, where absortion must take place or else it would inactivate the drug you are taking. Some of those inactive ingrededients, are just a part of the outer structure of the pill or capsule, usually with artificial flavors or coloring.

 

The diference among diferent products of the same drug, of diferent laboratories, usually is in the mixture of diferent inactive ingredients, some of which can have diferent reactions according to diferent patients (whew, what a big mix-up of "shit", , even for me, making the explanation it is dificult to understand, but whatever).

 

Edited March 30, 2010 by Rickdog
completing

[Mr Skeptic]

They want a few things: shelf life, controlled release, having some excuse to have a higher price.

[npts2020]

TylenolPM inactive ingredients:

 

Benzyl alcohol, black iron oxide, butylparaben, carboxymethyl cellulose sodium, crospovidone, D&C red #28, edetate calcium disodium, FD&C blue #1, FD&C red #40, gelatin, hypromellose, magnesium stearate, methylparaben, microcrystalline cellulose, polyethylene glycol, polysorbate 80, powdered cellulose, pregelatinized starch, propylene glycol, propylparaben, red iron oxide, sodium citrate, sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium propionate, sodium starch glycolate, titanium dioxide, yellow iron oxide

 

Why not sustitute all those with wheat flour, to say something ? Do we need to put all that in our bodies ?

 

Sure. How else are you going to get your RDA of all those good things?

 

 

I wonder what the RDA for FD&C red #28 or titanium dioxide is?