I am very cocky when it comes to getting sick. When I was younger, I would get colds or the flu pretty much every season. It was not uncommon for me to be sick on my birthday (late March...don't worry, I will remind you later so you can start picking out presents :) ), resulting in a depressing or cancelled party.
But now, for some reason, I don't get sick that often. I like to think that it's because I eat better and exercise more, but who knows. So now I get a cold or the flu maybe once a year. I like to think I'm immune to getting sick. For example, last year during that whole swine flu epidemic, Eric definitely caught it, but I didn't get sick.
Fate has caught up with me, and now I have a cold. Wah wah wah. Time to suck it up and get some medicine, take some naps, and get well. Today is day 3 of my cold, and it's got me thinking about medicines that are gluten free.
As some of you may remember from my post earlier this month, Gluten Free 101, one of the best ways to avoid "glutinating" yourself is to learn how to read food labels, and avoid anything that you can't pronounce. But with medicine, I can't pronounce ANYTHING!
Fortunately, I found this huge list on www.glutenfreedrugs.com. Here's the link for gluten free medicines. It's listed alphabetically, but if you go back a page you can download a PDF of the list to save. If you have a smartphone, this definitely comes in handy on the go.
One word of caution: be careful of generic versions of these medicines. All medicines use "fillers" to beef them up a bit, and generic version may use different, possibly gluten-filled, fillers in their medicines. When in doubt, ask a pharmacist or do your own research. There is nothing worse and more ironic than medicine making you MORE with gluten. So do your research and make sure you are able to stay gluten free while under the weather.
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