Is that Maalox gluten-free??

"Is that Maalox gluten-free?"

Now, as someone who has food allergies I can understand about being cautious about the things that I put into my body (at least the things that I'm eating anyway), but when it comes to medicines that are meant to speed up my recovery/cure an illness, I'd make an exception. At the risk of sounding insensitive or mean, I'm not entirely convinced that folks who have gluten "allergies" are actually for real. In the medical world, an allergy is something that is usually life threatening. My former roommate, for example, goes into anaphylactic shock just by looking at fish inappropriately. That, my dear readers, is an allergy. If high fructose corn syrup or gluten upsets your tummy, well, I'm not entirely convinced I should hold your antibiotics! If, on the other hand, eating a peanut forces me to give you oxygen up the butt because that is the only hole in your body that hasn't swollen shut, then I'm convinced.