OTC Medication to Help with Sugar Alcohol Reaction?
 

With so many new reduced carb products coming out these days that
include Sugar Alcohol, I was wondering if anyone has found an over the
counter medication that can be used to help counter the negative
reaction so many of us have.

I find in order to stick to a low-carb diet, I must at times have a
treat. However, if I eat the smallest amount of Sugar Alcohol I am
left with gas and bloating for hours. The "anti-gas" meds in the drug
store seem to have no effect on the problem at all.

A simular reaction happens when I am eating very low-carb and eat a
regular sweet, so having a small piece of candy or baked good with
regular sugar doesn't solve the problem, it just causes a similar one.

I know others have reactions to Sugar Alcohol and am wondering what
you take when you have a reaction? Certainly, people just don't sit
and suffer there has to be something you keep in your medicine cabinet
that helps calm things down.

Until they find a Sugar Alcohol that doesn't cause any issues when
being digested, I'd like to have something on hand just in case I need
it.

Thanks!

OTC Medication to Help with Sugar Alcohol Reaction?
 

The best medication is prevention. Just say no.

--
Most of us probably aren't in danger of eating too little. :)

Becky P.

"Ryan" wrote in message
om...
With so many new reduced carb products coming out these days that
include Sugar Alcohol, I was wondering if anyone has found an over the
counter medication that can be used to help counter the negative
reaction so many of us have.

I find in order to stick to a low-carb diet, I must at times have a
treat. However, if I eat the smallest amount of Sugar Alcohol I am
left with gas and bloating for hours. The "anti-gas" meds in the drug
store seem to have no effect on the problem at all.

A simular reaction happens when I am eating very low-carb and eat a
regular sweet, so having a small piece of candy or baked good with
regular sugar doesn't solve the problem, it just causes a similar one.

I know others have reactions to Sugar Alcohol and am wondering what
you take when you have a reaction? Certainly, people just don't sit
and suffer there has to be something you keep in your medicine cabinet
that helps calm things down.

Until they find a Sugar Alcohol that doesn't cause any issues when
being digested, I'd like to have something on hand just in case I need
it.

Thanks!

OTC Medication to Help with Sugar Alcohol Reaction?
 

Try the ZCarb bars, they don't have that effect. You can order them at
http://www.zcarbbar.com/



In om,
Ryan stated
| With so many new reduced carb products coming out these days that
| include Sugar Alcohol, I was wondering if anyone has found an over the
| counter medication that can be used to help counter the negative
| reaction so many of us have.
|
| I find in order to stick to a low-carb diet, I must at times have a
| treat. However, if I eat the smallest amount of Sugar Alcohol I am
| left with gas and bloating for hours. The "anti-gas" meds in the drug
| store seem to have no effect on the problem at all.
|
| A simular reaction happens when I am eating very low-carb and eat a
| regular sweet, so having a small piece of candy or baked good with
| regular sugar doesn't solve the problem, it just causes a similar one.
|
| I know others have reactions to Sugar Alcohol and am wondering what
| you take when you have a reaction? Certainly, people just don't sit
| and suffer there has to be something you keep in your medicine cabinet
| that helps calm things down.
|
| Until they find a Sugar Alcohol that doesn't cause any issues when
| being digested, I'd like to have something on hand just in case I need
| it.
|
| Thanks!

OTC Medication to Help with Sugar Alcohol Reaction?
 

In om,
Ryan coded for transmition to space:
With so many new reduced carb products coming out these days that
include Sugar Alcohol, I was wondering if anyone has found an over
the
counter medication that can be used to help counter the negative
reaction so many of us have.

The only one I know of is beano, but that just adds an enzyme that
helps you digest those carbs you're insert nasty bodily function
away, so what would be the point of eating a lowcarb version if you're
going to sabotague yourself?

A simular reaction happens when I am eating very low-carb and eat a
regular sweet, so having a small piece of candy or baked good with
regular sugar doesn't solve the problem, it just causes a similar
one.

Hmm. Ya know, we give our grandson apple juice when he gets a little
constipated. Maybe your gut has reverted to the sensitivity of a very
young child.

I know others have reactions to Sugar Alcohol and am wondering what
you take when you have a reaction?

I take a long meditative look at why I ate that stuff in the first
place, and ask myself was it really worth it while I make music in the
bathroom. :)

Certainly, people just don't sit
and suffer there has to be something you keep in your medicine
cabinet
that helps calm things down.

Nope. Not really.

Until they find a Sugar Alcohol that doesn't cause any issues when
being digested, I'd like to have something on hand just in case I
need
it.

There is a new SA that seems to avoid distress for most people. It's
called erythritol. Not many manufacturers use it yet-- it's probably
still too expensive even in bulk. There are lowcarb candy bars called
z-bars made with it available at 7-11s, and you can order it online
(9-10 bux for 2 cups) and make your own stuff with it. You might want
to try the candy bar first, to see if it is worth investing so much in
a sweetener.

(I like it, but at the price it's going for now, I only make holiday
goodies with it, and not many of those.)

--
revek
A cheap shot is a terrible thing to waste.

OTC Medication to Help with Sugar Alcohol Reaction?
 

I hate to agree with JC, but... well... no offense, but it's a stupid
question. Rather like asking for the best headache relief after
wacking yourself in the head with a hammer; the only appropriate reply
is... don't wack yourself!

There's lots of treats available without the need for sugar alcohols -
plenty of sucralose or aspartame-sweetened things. Mix up some cream
cheese, yogurt or ricotta with some cocoa and sweetener, or one of the
sugar-free DaVinci syrups. Or make Lynne's chocolate with your
favorite sugar substitute (I find it works just as well with aspartame
as with sucralose, which is cheaper).

OTC Medication to Help with Sugar Alcohol Reaction?
 

Ryan,

There's nothing that helps with that kind of gas, because the gas from both
wheat and sugar alcohols it is caused by undigested carbs getting into your
small intestine where helpful bacteria digest them for you via fermentation.

If you'll remember, a by-product of fermentation is gas.

The reason you get this happening with wheat after low carbing is that after
you stop eating wheat for a while, your body stops making the enzyme needed
to digest it. So the wheat passes into your gut and ferments there. This
problem goes away in a few days if you keep eating the wheat. But the sugar
alcohol problem does not because your body may not ever make enzymes to
digest them. (Some people do, which is why maltitol doesn't cause gas for
some people.)

Beano can help with the gas from wheat but not with the sugar alcohols. It
is an enzyme that breaks down starches.

BTW, combining Beano with prescription starch-blocking meds like Acarbose
will undo their helpful effect on carbs.
-- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes,
hba1c 5.2.
Cut the carbs to respond to my email address!

Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes,
strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at
http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/

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Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm



"Ryan" wrote in message
om...
With so many new reduced carb products coming out these days that
include Sugar Alcohol, I was wondering if anyone has found an over the
counter medication that can be used to help counter the negative
reaction so many of us have.

I find in order to stick to a low-carb diet, I must at times have a
treat. However, if I eat the smallest amount of Sugar Alcohol I am
left with gas and bloating for hours. The "anti-gas" meds in the drug
store seem to have no effect on the problem at all.

A simular reaction happens when I am eating very low-carb and eat a
regular sweet, so having a small piece of candy or baked good with
regular sugar doesn't solve the problem, it just causes a similar one.

I know others have reactions to Sugar Alcohol and am wondering what
you take when you have a reaction? Certainly, people just don't sit
and suffer there has to be something you keep in your medicine cabinet
that helps calm things down.

Until they find a Sugar Alcohol that doesn't cause any issues when
being digested, I'd like to have something on hand just in case I need
it.

Thanks!

OTC Medication to Help with Sugar Alcohol Reaction?
 

"Ryan" wrote in message
om...
With so many new reduced carb products coming out these days that
include Sugar Alcohol, I was wondering if anyone has found an over the
counter medication that can be used to help counter the negative
reaction so many of us have.

Don't eat them.


I find in order to stick to a low-carb diet, I must at times have a
treat. However, if I eat the smallest amount of Sugar Alcohol I am
left with gas and bloating for hours. The "anti-gas" meds in the drug
store seem to have no effect on the problem at all.

Work a REAL treat (without sugar alcohol) into your lowcarb diet. You need
chocolate? Make yourself something with Cocoa in it. If you are not in
induction, you can maybe fir that in. Personally, I'd find a way to make my
diet work without sugar alcohols if they bothered me a lot...

OTC Medication to Help with Sugar Alcohol Reaction?
 

Try the ZCarb bars, they don't have that effect. You can order them at
http://www.zcarbbar.com/


18 bars for $26?? They're $0.98 at Walmart! And I think it should be "they
don't have that effect on MOST people". Nothing is true for everyone.


LCing since 12/01/03-
Me- 265/220/140
& hubby- 310/239/180

OTC Medication to Help with Sugar Alcohol Reaction?
 

revek wrote:

There is a new SA that seems to avoid distress for most people. It's
called erythritol. Not many manufacturers use it yet-- it's probably
still too expensive even in bulk. There are lowcarb candy bars called
z-bars made with it available at 7-11s, and you can order it online
(9-10 bux for 2 cups) and make your own stuff with it. You might want
to try the candy bar first, to see if it is worth investing so much in
a sweetener.

(I like it, but at the price it's going for now, I only make holiday
goodies with it, and not many of those.)

Note that it is REALLY nasty sprinkled on fruit....

--
Jean B.

OTC Medication to Help with Sugar Alcohol Reaction?
 

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:00:24 GMT, "FOB" wrote:

Try the ZCarb bars, they don't have that effect. You can order them at
http://www.zcarbbar.com/



To bad they don't have an ingredients list on the page. As soon as I
see a phrase like Zero "Impact" Carbs (quote mine) I know damn well
there are sugar alcohols involved.

Sleepy

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