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Have Been Poisoning Myself For 3 Months!

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Urgh... this sucks so bad... I just figured out today that Claritin, which I have been taking daily since May, contains dairy. I became casein intolerant in early September (official DX in Nov, but symptoms from Aug). So this whole time I've been dosing myself up with casein daily. Arghh!!! :angry: The weird thing is, I haven't had 'caseined' symptoms (not the way I did when I had a tiny tiny mouthful of something cooked in butter - sick for 8 days straight), but I've clearly been doing myself damage nonetheless. Maybe this explains all these new 'niggles' (extra allergies, stomach ache after meals...) I feel like such a fool. Of course I made sure it was gluten-free, but by the time I went CF I was in such a Claritin every morning routine I just didn't think to check.

Have switched to Allegra. Onwards and upwards... ;)

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just straight claritin? just curious..i take clarinex. still mind boggling to me that there would be dairy in a pill!

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Yup, Clartitin, Claritin D... It has some lactose ingredient. Clarinex does too from what I've read online... Check the box, it should say 'lactose something'.

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I have also found variations in generic Claritin (loratidine) - I took one store brand for a month with no problem after checking the ingredient list. Then I switched to a different store brand, and on the 3 days that I took it (it took a while to make the association) I had the deepest, darkest depression! I never had that as a celiac symptom before, but the active ingredient should have been the same. The new batch had "pregelatinized starch" - has anyone had a problem with that?

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skbird
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Pregelatinized starch can contain gluten. It's one of those iffy ingredients. I try to avoid it, it is in one pill I was taking but I got rid of it...

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