Gluten Free Cold and Allergy Medications

It is cold and flu season again.  Also fall allergies are just now starting for those sufferers.  You need to make sure that the medications you use are in fact gluten free.  I have compiled a list of gluten free cold/flu and allergy medications to help you through the fall season.  Also, if you know any medications I have missed please let me know. 

Gluten in Non-Food Products

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I recently made a mistake and managed to get myself into gluten, when I say recently, I mean yesterday.  It was only after the fact did I think about what I was doing.  I had used latex gloves and had not checked what was in the powder.  I was thinking baby powder or corn starch, well I was right it was baby powder, a nice mixture of talc and gluten.  I had taken off the glove and not thinking I started to bite my nails.  Yep, I was sick.  I am still sick from that mistake.  So I am creating another list of household gluten containing items that are not (generally) edible.  

Medication:

Pills

Cough Syrups

Cough Drops

Vitamins

Minerals

Capsules

Toiletries:  

As I have mentioned a lot there is gluten in every type of makeup.  So I will skip those items

Toothpaste

Mouthwash

Baby Powder

Bath Salts

Soap

Sunscreen

Household items:

Detergents

Rubber Gloves, Latex Gloves

Cleaning solutions

Envelopes (I keep reading that this is not true, however, I have gotten sick off them so just don't like them if you can avoid it.)

Random items:

Glue

Art Supplies (especially Play dough or molding dough)

Gum

Pet Food

This is a basic list to get you started and to make sure that you read the ingredients on things you don't PLAN on eating.  From my experience that doesn't always happen the way I would want it to.  

What other items have you found gluten in?  

Gluten free Cold medications

I recently had to go to the doctor for shoulder pain and a sinus infection.  This normally would have been no issue since the doctors are well aware of my issues and try to get me into a room and away from the other patents (due to my IGA-D) however, in this case the nice lady up front forgot to check me in.  I waited over 50 minutes and 20 minutes past my appointment before I went to the front desk to ask what is going on.  I was taken back and put into a room.  The appointment went fine; I tore some of the muscles in my shoulder and did indeed have a sinus infection.