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Strange ingredient in a generic pill

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anotnon

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I just looked at the inactive ingredients for my generic pill and one of them was aluminum oxide. Isnt aluminum poisonus? Of all the fillers and binders why would they use aluminum oxide? Could that cause some side effects that other generics that don't use it don't have? I've looked and haven't found anything about it being used in pills. It says its used as filler for plastics, sunscreen and cosmetics which is strange. Its also used in sandpaper, parts of fishing rods and spark plug insulators
 
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aluminum oxide is not the same stuff as metallic alumnium. it's a white, inert powder like sand that's also called "alumina". it's used as a filler and bulking agent and is about as toxic as eating sand (read: it's not)

it's used because it's cheap and non reactive
 
anotnon said:
I just looked at the inactive ingredients for my generic pill and one of them was aluminum oxide. Isnt aluminum poisonus? Of all the fillers and binders why would they use aluminum oxide? Could that cause some side effects that other generics that don't use it don't have? I've looked and haven't found anything about it being used in pills. It says its used as filler for plastics, sunscreen and cosmetics which is strange. Its also used in sandpaper, parts of fishing rods and spark plug insulators
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Aluminum, believe it or not, actually has legitimate medicinal uses. Most common example - deodorant/antiperspirant. Just look at the back of any roll-on antiperspirant. They all contain aluminum as the main active ingredient. Why? Because it plugs sweat pores. With that being said, though - it's a molecule that contains aluminum as the 'bulk' of the molecule.
 
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Aluminum, believe it or not, actually has legitimate medicinal uses. Most common example - deodorant/antiperspirant. Just look at the back of any roll-on antiperspirant. They all contain aluminum as the main active ingredient. Why? Because it plugs sweat pores. With that being said, though - it's a molecule that contains aluminum as the 'bulk' of the molecule.
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So it is aluminum. Could aluminum oxide cause side effects? Why would they even put in a pill and ironically in clonazepam since about aluminum "It is particularly poisonous to the nervous system"

I'm talking about this http://www.drugs.com/imprints/93-833-115.html

Should I just get another generic if aluminum oxide could possibly be giving unnecessary added side effects?
 
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