'Almost every pill and capsule' contains inactive compounds such as lactose, gluten and food dyes, new study finds.
, including inactive compounds, in prescription drugs.
The researchers studied databases that catalogue the entire contents of known medications. In one example, a certain lipid-lowering medication contained 5 mg of the drug and 700 mg of inactive ingredients.Approximately 33 percent contained a food dye. “Many probably have amounts that are low enough that they wouldn’t induce a reaction, but in patients taking more than one medication they might pose a problem,” Traverso said. “For example, lactose is in a significant proportion of medications.”
“If the required dose is 5 mg, that’s a really small amount and you can’t make a tablet out of that,” Patel said. “So you mix it with an inactive ingredient such as lactose or dextrose and now you can make a tablet. It might not form into a tablet if you use something else.”
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