Dr. Reddy’s Sandoz sumatriptan gluten-free?

[Zepplyn]

Hi,

im finding old posts and tried to email/call and haven’t gotten a call back yet.  Does anyone know if these are in fact gluten free?  It would explain A LOT if they were not, back to the drawing board if they are.  Any feedback anyone received from the come would be greatly appreciated.

[kareng]

3 hours ago, Zepplyn said:

Hi,

im finding old posts and tried to email/call and haven’t gotten a call back yet.  Does anyone know if these are in fact gluten free?  It would explain A LOT if they were not, back to the drawing board if they are.  Any feedback anyone received from the come would be greatly appreciated.

If this is an injection, you don’t need to worry.   You don’t inject gluten and even if you did - it can’t cause a celiac reaction.  The celiac reaction to gluten happens in the small intestine. 

[RMJ]

It looks like there are several formulations, oral, intranasal and injectable.  About which one are you concerned?  

[Zepplyn]

Hi, the oral.

Thanks

1 hour ago, kareng said:

If this is an injection, you don’t need to worry.   You don’t inject gluten and even if you did - it can’t cause a celiac reaction.  The celiac reaction to gluten happens in the small intestine. 

Yes, the oral tablets I get.

[RMJ]

I’m trying to find the official prescribing information that would list the ingredients.  Are you in the US? And is the manufacturer Sandoz or Dr Reddy?  I can’t find prescribing information for Dr Reddy’s tablets on their website but maybe I can find it on the FDA website if it is a US drug.  I found it for Canadian Sandoz tablets which includes lactose (which affects some with celiac) and sodium starch glycolate (highly processed but the starch source is not listed).

I’ll look again if you can tell me what strength tablet you take and in what country it is purchased, although I am most used to searching for US drugs. 

[Zepplyn]

57 minutes ago, RMJ said:

I’m trying to find the official prescribing information that would list the ingredients.  Are you in the US? And is the manufacturer Sandoz or Dr Reddy?  I can’t find prescribing information for Dr Reddy’s tablets on their website but maybe I can find it on the FDA website if it is a US drug.  I found it for Canadian Sandoz tablets which includes lactose (which affects some with celiac) and sodium starch glycolate (highly processed but the starch source is not listed).

I’ll look again if you can tell me what strength tablet you take and in what country it is purchased, although I am most used to searching for US drugs. 

Wow, thank you so much! 
yes, I am in US, I believe dr reddys is from India, but have plants here in US.  I just ordered a refill and will have tomorrow, but I take the 100 mg tablets.  I came across a Post on another celiac support group from years ago stating they were not gluten-free, so I emailed and tried to call today with no response yet, I figured I’d try here to see if someone else had already went this route.

[RMJ]

The FDA website does not include the package insert, and I couldn't find it on the Dr. Reddy website, either.  Sorry. I hope you can get the ingredient information directly from Dr. Reddy.

[Zepplyn]

11 minutes ago, RMJ said:

The FDA website does not include the package insert, and I couldn't find it on the Dr. Reddy website, either.  Sorry. I hope you can get the ingredient information directly from Dr. Reddy.

Geez, I thank you so much for all your trouble, I really appreciate it!  I’ll post something if they ever respond to me.

[elizabethhousworth]

This is much later than these posts, but on April 29, 2025, I called Dr. Reddy's Labs about Sumatriptan SUCC 100 mg tablets and were told that they DO contain gluten. 

[Scott Adams]

You can search this site for prescriptions medications, but will need to know the manufacturer/maker if there is more than one, especially if you use a generic version of the medication:

To see the ingredients you will need to click on the correct version of the medication and maker in the results, then scroll down to "Ingredients and Appearance" and click it, and then look at "Inactive Ingredients," as any gluten ingredients would likely appear there, rather than in the Active Ingredients area.

• https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/ 

 

[elizabethhousworth]

Fascinating. No ingredient in Dr. Reddy's Sumatriptan SUCC 100 mg has gluten, or should have gluten. But the doctor said ask the pharmacist. The pharmacist said call the manufacturer. And the manufacturer said "it contains gluten." 

[Scott Adams]

People say lots of things, but the site above is a government website and should have the correct ingredients (perhaps ask the pharmacist where they got their info?).

[elizabethhousworth]

It wasn't the pharmacist. It was the manufacturer. I called Reddy Labs. Reddy Labs said that their Sumatriptan SUCC has gluten in it. The government website information is from December, 2020. So do I trust 4-5 year old information or the information that the manufacturer told me today? Given that it is for my profoundly autistic, developmentally disabled son with celiac disease and migraines who cannot tell me if he suspects he has been exposed to gluten, I went with the information from the manufacturer given to me today. I do wish I had brought them home and run my EZ Gluten and LEOverified test on one of the pills crushed up. But I was so shocked when the manufacturer told me that the pills contained gluten that I put them in the CVS medicine disposal immediately. 

[Scott Adams]

If the manufacturer says it contains gluten, then I would definitely go with that over the government website. 

[knitty kitty]

@elizabethhousworth,

I found that supplementing with Riboflavin Vitamin B2 has helped my migraines immensely.  

Effect of Vitamin B2 supplementation on migraine prophylaxis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33779525/

"Conclusions: A pooled analysis of available randomized controlled clinical trials demonstrated that Vitamin B2 400 mg/day for three months supplementation had significant effect on days, duration, frequency, and pain score of migraine attacks."

Dr. Derrick Lonsdale and Dr. Chandler Marrs  have found supplementing with a form if thiamine vitamin B1 called TTFD (tetrahydrofurfuryl disulfide) helps in autism. 

Treatment of autism spectrum children with thiamine tetrahydrofurfuryl disulfide: a pilot study

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12195231/

The Rationale for Vitamin, Mineral, and Cofactor Treatment in the Precision Medical Care of Autism Spectrum Disorder

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9964499/

Hope this helps!

[elizabethhousworth]

Thanks. My son has been on B2 for two to three years now. I found literature about B1 earlier and put him on a B1 supplement, but not thiamine tetrahydrofurfuryl disulfide specifically. He also gets D and Magnesium. He goes to his doctor in June and I am going to ask for bloodwork to look for any deficiencies. What I suspect is that he is having a gluten-like reaction to the proteins in other grains. It is well known that a small percentage of celiac patients react to the protein in oats. Oats are in gluten-free Oreos, so we removed them. He got a little better. The science with oats is pretty solid. My son's nutritionist knows about it and it is easily found in PubMed. I suspect my son is reacting to something else. The next thing that I only just removed was corn, at least things with corn protein. I need to give that a couple of months. If that doesn't work, I will try to replace his cheese with goat-milk cheese, although that will be hard. 

 

My son was migraine free for over a year on a strict gluten-free diet before this past fall. I can test his foods for gluten and I have given in to diet rigidity. He eats my homemade refried beans and rice for lunch every day, so his rigid diet contains pretty healthy components. Given his antibody levels (tTG-IgA very low) and that I tested everything under the son that he ingests when his migraines returned and nothing tested positive for gluten, I think he really is gluten-free. So my personal working hypothesis is that he is having a reaction to a similar protein, one in another grain. However, the neurologist sees migraines come and go in lots of normal people, so it might just be that he is now having multiple (3-10) migraines monthly and it is hormonal or weather-related or something that is entirely distinct from an antibody reaction. I just would like them to go away again, as would he. 

 

Thanks again!

Elizabeth

[knitty kitty]

I suggest you eliminate dairy from your son's diet next.  Cow's milk protein, Casein, can trigger tTg IgA antibody production, the same as gluten, because casein contains segments of proteins that resemble gluten protein segments.  

Mucosal reactivity to cow's milk protein in coeliac disease

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1810502/

I cannot consume dairy products.  Some people find they can tolerate A2 dairy without a reaction.

Corn is another frequently hard to tolerate food because the protein zein in corn also resembles the protein structure of gluten.  

Do research in Dr. Derrick Lonsdale and TTFD thiamine.  Taking TTFD really can make a dramatic difference, speaking from personal experience.

https://hormonesmatter.com/energy-deficiency-asd/

Keep us posted on your progress!