Kappler Levothyroxine Tablets

[helvella]

Just womndring if anyone has ever received, or been offered, Kappler levothyroxine?

They do have a UK product licence!

Patient Information Leaflet: mhraproductsprod.blob.core....

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Interesting .....lactose, mannitol and acacia free

[helvella Administrator in reply to SlowDragon]

Which was very much behind my asking if anyone has seen it!

[Nellups in reply to helvella]

Interested where do you get the info from regarding them being licensed in Uk? I’m still struggling getting lactose and mannitol free levothyroxine, if I could give the doctor a name that’s licensed in UK I might get somewhere

[helvella Administrator in reply to Nellups]

Follow the link in my original post.

That is to the Patient Information Leafet on the MHRA's website - who are the people who issue licences.

The MHRA have a Products website:

products.mhra.gov.uk/

Within that, I typed "KAPPLER" and got the Patient Information Leafet, the Summary of Product Characteristics document and the Public Assessment Report.

PAR- mhraproductsprod.blob.core....

SPC - mhraproductsprod.blob.core....

PIL - mhraproductsprod.blob.core....

The SPC contains this:

8 MARKETING AUTHORISATION NUMBER(S) PL 22363/0016

9 DATE OF FIRST AUTHORISATION/RENEWAL OF THE AUTHORISATION 08/07/2019

Trouble is, having a licence is absolutely no guarantee that anyone imports or distributes the product.

[Nellups in reply to helvella]

Thank you

[jgelliss in reply to helvella]

helvella many thyroid meds have corn /potato starch in them too that many don't do well with them . It would be nice to have these fillers omitted from the thyroid meds too . It would be Great if you can have your input on the US side too .

[helvella Administrator in reply to jgelliss]

For Kappler levothyroxine, it says:

The other ingredients are microcrystalline cellulose, maize starch, heavy magnesium oxide, sodium starch glycolate type A and magnesium stearate

I think that sodium starch glycolate type A is derived from potatoes.

Difficulty is that the ingredients have to come from somewhere.

Interestingly, the PIL also says:

Levothyroxine Kappler contains sodium

This medicine contains less than 1 mmol sodium (23 mg) per tablet, that is to say essentially ‘sodium-free'

I don't remember seeing that on any other UK PILs. It should help to re-assure those who have been told to have a low sodium diet but then were prescribed levothyroxine sodium. (Other makes will having varying levels of sodium from the non-levothyroxine ingredients but still likely to be very low.)

[jgelliss in reply to helvella]

helvella I venture to say that most probably the ones who put together the ingredients in our thyroid meds are not dosing with them themselves . What a different thyroid meds it would be if thyroid patients would be putting the ingredients together. Patients know *Best* what is good/works and does not .

[helvella Administrator in reply to jgelliss]

I did raise that as a question/thread a while back - asking for suggestions!

[jgelliss in reply to helvella]

I apologize . I must have missed it . But I fully support all your wonderful and Great Valuable work and time you devote to our in betterments . May your success be our success universally .

Thank You .

[helvella Administrator in reply to jgelliss]

No apology needed - far too many posts for anyone to take them all in.

[jgelliss in reply to helvella]

Your Very Kind . Thank You .

[helvella Administrator in reply to jgelliss]

This was the thread: healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

[jgelliss in reply to helvella]

It's very appreciated . Thank You .

[crimple]

Thanks for posting helvella. Interesting to read they contain heavy magnesium oxide and glycolate!! Don't think I have seen them mentioned before.

I have to keep away from acacia powder but my Sigma Pharma liothyronine does contain mannitol and I understand that is a problem for some people.

[blondpalomino]

Hi Helvella,

No, sorry I haven't heard of them before.Do they only come in 100mcg tablets?

In that case they wouldn't be prescribed for me anyway, as I take 75mcg, usually 3 x 25mcg Wokhart, though they did try to give me 1 x 75mcg Teva once,as they are the only makers (as far as I know) of 75mcg Thyroxine.

Needless to say they didn't agree with me, so I got the Wockhart 3 x 25mcg put on my prescription, so they can't try and do that again!

[helvella Administrator in reply to blondpalomino]

So far as I have seen, yes, Kappler seems only to have a licence for 100 microgram tablets.

[skelly82]

Not seen it. I worked in a pharmacy until last year, never came across it🤷‍♀️

[Lora7again]

Here is a link about the German company

kapplerpharma.de/en/regulat...