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Originally Posted by Curious
update.
i got a very fast response from janet...the reporter. she would also like to know if this comes to anyhting on our part. she is such an advocate for people. she is the health reporter. ( i did not give her what forum we are on) here is part of her email to me:
I had to make a formal FOI request to GlaxoSmithKline for the ingredients
here they are exactly as I was given (this is EXACTLY as everything was spelled):
Sodium/magesium/zinc methylvinylether/maleicanhydnde copolymer salt CMC (sodium carboxymetheylcellulose)
Mineral oil
Petrolatum
Silicon Dioxide
Gantrez acid
Spray dried peppermint (contains modified starch)
Spray dried spearmint (contains modified starch)
Opatint Red 7 calcium lake
Opatint Red 30 aluminum lake |
Thanks for this information. I am here for my father, who has almost total neuropathy in both feet. He used Polygrip for as long as I can remeber, until 1992, when he had some type of snaps/? or something placed into his gums and dentures. He has had tests run and told that he shows signs of zinc poisening. When he contacted Glaxo, he was told that in 1992, there was not any zinc in their product. Without some "old" polygrip, we really have no way to determine if that is true or not. If you or anyone else has any suggerstions on how to obtain some "old" polygrip, or the ingredents that it supposedly had back then, we'd love to hear them.