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Posted 10/19/2020 7:20 AM (GMT -5)
Has anyone’s doctors suggested rx changes due to Phthalates (plastics) in Asacol?
Posted 10/19/2020 8:34 AM (GMT -5)
I haven't seen anyone on here talk about this. Where did you hear this from?
Posted 10/19/2020 10:12 AM (GMT -5)
No. It would be the coating and minimally absorbed I would think. What are the options offered to you?

q
Posted 10/19/2020 8:36 PM (GMT -5)
@straydog ... ran across this info here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3819538/

@quincy ... just read above article today ... threw it out here to see if anyone knew anything about it .... have not inquired about Phthalates with my gastroenterologist.... yet
Posted 10/20/2020 1:03 PM (GMT -5)
Personally, it's not something I would give second thought to.

q
Posted 10/20/2020 1:14 PM (GMT -5)

quincy said...
Personally, it's not something I would give second thought to.

+1
Posted 10/21/2020 8:52 AM (GMT -5)
Majority of mesalamines have a MMX plastic, polymer coating used for the delayed release effect of the med.

If it concerns you, go to the plastic-free protomesalamines (sulfasalazine, balsalazide disodium) which are more complex molecules that cut bacteria cleave into mesalamine and a byproduct. There's no red/brown/orange coating on those. Most are chalk white, yellowish in color.
Posted 10/21/2020 10:34 PM (GMT -5)
thanks @ipoop
Had I just been starting on this journey I would probably consider plastic-free but 30 yrs later doesn’t really much sense to be
Posted 10/23/2020 11:59 AM (GMT -5)
I thought Asacol was pulled off the market (ostensibly due to the phthalates) and the manufacturer made a new drug, Delzicol, virtually identical without the phthalates, which in a happy coincidence got them another 20 years of patent exclusivity? (no generics possible)

I would suggest you use generic Lialda in any case as it's cheaper, generic, takes fewer pills and I don't think it has phthalates.
Posted 10/23/2020 11:37 PM (GMT -5)
Not sure where you are located, but my understanding is that the Canadian version of Asacol has phthalates (and therefore should not be used during pregnancy), but the American formulation has changed and no longer contains phthalates. Not sure if it now goes by a different name, as someone above suggested.
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