Madopar contain Mannitol! Who knew?

[Buckholt]

Just looking at the leaflet with my new supply of Madopar, and see that the lowest strength version contains Mannitol. Who knew? Would be interesting to know why.

[MBAnderson]

taste

[Buckholt in reply to MBAnderson]

Unlike tablets, they are taste free capsules. Anyway, why not in other doses?

[Xenos in reply to Buckholt]

Mannitol is a filler : it's used to fill up the capsules.

Since it's neutral - i.e. has absolutely no effect whatsoever (*)- it's used as such.

Mannitol is often used as a placebo to test new drugs in blind tests.

(*) unless it's given in very high, intravenous doses, in case of brain swelling

[LAJ12345]

It’s too small an amount to do anything.