Arghh! A real pet peeve. Ditto on the Singulair and Advair.

What always astonishes me is how many inhaled medications (now, 
including the new Pulmicort formulation) include lactose, and how 
many of those also describe allergic reaction symptoms on their list 
of adverse reactions. Have they ever thought of trying to 
cross-correlate these reactions with lists of dairy-allergic 
patients?!?!? Sorry - down from soapbox.

I basically gave up on finding a lactose-free osteoporosis medication 
(btw, bone loss is a big problem for those of us not eating dairy). 
Fortunately, I only have to suffer once weekly, and my symptoms are 
mostly GI, with only minor allergic symptoms.

This would be an ideal "class action" (although I don't intend to 
sue). I suspect there are quite a few who'd like to send a message to 
the drug (and vitamin) companies.

Mark

At 02:34 PM 2/25/2008, Weavre Cooper wrote:

>Since there's one active discussion here at the moment, I thought I'd toss
>out another one as well: has anyone else had problems with medicines
>containing pharmaceutical grade lactose?