Comments on: I’m NOT going to suck it up http://www.docgurley.com/2008/05/30/im-not-going-to-suck-it-up/ Posts from an Insane Healthcare System Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:17:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Meet The FTC, Your New Drug Watchdog. | Doc Gurley http://www.docgurley.com/2008/05/30/im-not-going-to-suck-it-up/#comment-2171 Meet The FTC, Your New Drug Watchdog. | Doc Gurley Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:26:28 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/?p=185#comment-2171 [...] companies in their quest to extend the time for which they can make excessive profits (see “I’m not going to suck it up“) or doesn’t bother to check foreign drug imports very carefully (see “Is your [...] [...] companies in their quest to extend the time for which they can make excessive profits (see “I’m not going to suck it up“) or doesn’t bother to check foreign drug imports very carefully (see “Is your [...]

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]]> By: Bill Vincent http://www.docgurley.com/2008/05/30/im-not-going-to-suck-it-up/#comment-984 Bill Vincent Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:30:17 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/?p=185#comment-984 I have a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences who used to work for Schering-Plough R&D. I did not do research on Proventil myself, but I have enough scientific insight to provide additional information for your crusade. 1) The older Albuterol that was formulated in an inert matrix was almost indefinitely stable. No air or water vapor could attack the Albuterol inside the canister. The FDA mandates a maximum three-year expiration date. Check the expiration dates on the new canisters and compare them with the older formulation. Albuterol is apparently unstable in the new matrix. If alcohol is used as an "inactive ingredient, Albuterol will degrade in a relatively short time frame. That is why the new inhalers have such a short expiration date. This is Dangerous for consumers! Leave one of these babies in the hot sun and you will be inhaling a useless product at best, and at worst a harmful degradation product. 2) Alcohol is a Dehydrating Agent and an Irritant!!! Why should you take a dehydrating agent when asthmatics need to Hydrate their lungs??? Alcohol can and will irritate the mucosal lining of your lungs, and even cause asthmatic attacks. 3) You have no time to protest: FDA Urges Asthma Patients To Switch Inhalers by 2009 By Alicia Mundy - The Wall Street Journal, 30 May 2008 WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday alerted doctors, pharmacists and asthma patients that inhalers using chloroflurocarbons, or CFC, as propellants will no longer be sold in the U.S. after Dec. 31. The albuterol inhalers are being replaced by devices with a different propellant, hydrofluoroalkanem or HFA, which may taste different and cost more. The change is part ... 4) We have friends: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveCFCinhalers/index.html http://www.consumeraffairs.com/health/hfa_inhalers.html http://smokeringsandcoffeestains.com/?p=299 I have a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences who used to work for Schering-Plough R&D. I did not do research on Proventil myself, but I have enough scientific insight to provide additional information for your crusade.

1) The older Albuterol that was formulated in an inert matrix was almost indefinitely stable. No air or water vapor could attack the Albuterol inside the canister. The FDA mandates a maximum three-year expiration date.

Check the expiration dates on the new canisters and compare them with the older formulation. Albuterol is apparently unstable in the new matrix. If alcohol is used as an “inactive ingredient, Albuterol will degrade in a relatively short time frame. That is why the new inhalers have such a short expiration date. This is Dangerous for consumers! Leave one of these babies in the hot sun and you will be inhaling a useless product at best, and at worst a harmful degradation product.

2) Alcohol is a Dehydrating Agent and an Irritant!!! Why should you take a dehydrating agent when asthmatics need to Hydrate their lungs??? Alcohol can and will irritate the mucosal lining of your lungs, and even cause asthmatic attacks.

3) You have no time to protest:

FDA Urges Asthma Patients To Switch Inhalers by 2009
By Alicia Mundy – The Wall Street Journal, 30 May 2008
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday alerted doctors, pharmacists and asthma patients that inhalers using chloroflurocarbons, or CFC, as propellants will no longer be sold in the U.S. after Dec. 31.

The albuterol inhalers are being replaced by devices with a different propellant, hydrofluoroalkanem or HFA, which may taste different and cost more. The change is part …

4) We have friends:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveCFCinhalers/index.html

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/health/hfa_inhalers.html

http://smokeringsandcoffeestains.com/?p=299

]]> By: Doc Gurley http://www.docgurley.com/2008/05/30/im-not-going-to-suck-it-up/#comment-961 Doc Gurley Sat, 31 May 2008 17:44:58 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/?p=185#comment-961 Good question - an issue I didn't consider. I'm also not sure - when it comes to protests - whether having "disallowed" cannisters clogging the Congressional mailroom is better or worse. Any thoughts? Good question – an issue I didn’t consider. I’m also not sure – when it comes to protests – whether having “disallowed” cannisters clogging the Congressional mailroom is better or worse. Any thoughts?

]]> By: Ian Furst http://www.docgurley.com/2008/05/30/im-not-going-to-suck-it-up/#comment-960 Ian Furst Sat, 31 May 2008 15:58:25 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/?p=185#comment-960 Great protest but do you think the inhalers will get past security points? I assume that with mail screening that happens off site used inhalers (with white residue) will get stuck off site -- it may be more effective to do mass mailings. www.waittimes.blogspot.com Great protest but do you think the inhalers will get past security points? I assume that with mail screening that happens off site used inhalers (with white residue) will get stuck off site — it may be more effective to do mass mailings.

http://www.waittimes.blogspot.com

]]> By: This Is Not The Time To Suck It Up | Doc Gurley http://www.docgurley.com/2008/05/30/im-not-going-to-suck-it-up/#comment-957 This Is Not The Time To Suck It Up | Doc Gurley Fri, 30 May 2008 21:37:36 +0000 http://www.docgurley.com/?p=185#comment-957 [...] besides feeling victimized? Do you commiserate and want to lend a hand? Read the Doc Gurley post http://www.docgurley.com/2008/05/30/im-not-going-to-suck-it-up/ for information on how you can make a difference. Remember - feeling helpless is bad for [...] [...] besides feeling victimized? Do you commiserate and want to lend a hand? Read the Doc Gurley post http://www.docgurley.com/2008/05/30/im-not-going-to-suck-it-up/ for information on how you can make a difference. Remember – feeling helpless is bad for [...]

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