Allergy Free Medicines

Announcing Allergy Free Medicines Some people have significant allergies to some ingredients commonly used in medicines (excipients), which can of course be a major issue and potentially dangerous to their health. Now NHS patients in UK can obtain medicines free of any specific allergen. This is a new service from Hard To Find Medicines Who are a specialist supplier of discontinued or other unavailable medicines for NHS patients. This new service is only available to NHS patients and the prescribing doctor would need to endorse each prescribed medicine AFSP to indicate the product should be specially sourced as Allergy Free. Then just send the prescription, with a completed checklist and a note of the specific allergen. Their team of medicines specialists will then obtain the required medications and send them back to you. The is a free service, no charge is made for the sourcing, but normal NHS prescription charges would apply, if you are exempt please sign the reverse of the prescription, and tick the relevant reason for the exemption. Further details are available from www.afsp.uk. A list of common excipients that might cause an allergy and E numbers is available Here Hard to Find Medicines also have a Gluten Free medicines service, for patients with a significant reaction to Gluten further information is available at gfsp.uk So patients who have any significant allergies can now obtain medications without the stress anxiety or risk. If you have an allergy or suspect you might be reacting to an excipient in your prescribed medicines discuss it with your GP or hospital specialist, and if they think you might benefit from allergy free medicines then contact us at Hard To Find Medicines and we'll do our utmost to help. This can be very helpful also to prove or disprove an allergy to any specific ingredient. Anybody with persistent coeliac disease symptoms which do not improve despite removing all gluten from the diet should try GF medicines just to check this is not the cause of the symptoms.