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From: rfh@ecsvax.UUCP (Robert Hill)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: cholestyramine
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Date: Tue, 11-Nov-86 10:34:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 11 10:34:10 1986
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Summary: The taste of Cholestyramine.

In article <2300@bucse.bu-cs.BU.EDU>, gasp@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Isaac Kohane) writes:
> >	1. Cholestyramine - it lowers Cholesterol 10-15%, but it is
> >a resin, has to be mixed, and allegedly tastes horrible.
 
> orange-flavored cholestyramine and it tasted like tang sawdust. When
> mixed with water, it tastes like a bad " orange julius."  In my book

I have been taking Cholestyramine twice daily since Feb. 1980.  You
can get used to the taste, however the taste changes depending on the
source of the water you mix it with.  The well water at home is fine,
but the treated water in Chapel Hill makes it taste horrible.
 
I take it to adsorb bile salts.  I am missing the last 3 feet of the
ileium, which normally adsorbs bile salts, because of surgery due to
Crohn's Disease.  The bile salts are a very good laxative - "a dose of
salts" - if allowed to enter the Colon.  As a side effect,
my Cholesterol is at the low normal level.