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From: gasp@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Isaac Kohane)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: cholestyramine
Message-ID: <2300@bucse.bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 23:23:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  6 23:23:41 1986
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>	1. Cholestyramine - it lowers Cholesterol 10-15%, but it is
>a resin, has to be mixed, and allegedly tastes horrible.
					 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

As doc in training (med stud.), I believe in trying (those relatively
safe) products that I administer to patients. I did try a packet of
orange-flavored cholestyramine and it tasted like tang sawdust. When
mixed with water, it tastes like a bad " orange julius."  In my book
that's not too bad and is worth enduring if you do have abnormal levels
of cholesterol or oen of the cholesterol/liporotein disorders. In any case,
in those instances when it is indicated, it works (unlike chelation) to lower
serum cholesterol.