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I have recently met someone who had problems with citrucel and
metamucil given as fibre additives causing a continued problem with
diarrhea. She told me that when she called the citrucel co. first that
it was gluten free. after several weeks of symptoms she tried again and
this time they told her was a little gluten but it probably did not
matter. She then went on metamucil which caused a similar problem. This
was the orange flavored "smooth textured metamucil, whose ingrediant list
had 95% pysllium seed. and some other colors and natural flavors. I
wonder what the other 5% was. Since stopping the metamucil her symptoms
have stopped. I suspect that this was called the sunrise smooth variety
of metamucil which I used to tell people to avoid that type. It seems
that now the sunrise part of the label is no longer being used.
My advice if you need supplemental fibre use apples pears and rice bran
as reasonable and safe sources of fibre.
Has anyone else had experiences with these agents.
Also as with all mediacation if one dose size of a tablet is GF does not
mean that every dose size will be also. For example
Biaxin ( a new and expensive antibiotic) the 250mg tablet has
pregelatinised starch as an ingredient ( which may be wheat derived)
whereas the 500mg does not. One form of the solution may alo have gluten
in it also.
Joe Murray Iowa