# Is Mylanta no longer made? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 25, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mylanta-no-longer-made/710817 "2015-01-25T02:38:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mylanta-no-longer-made/710817/21 "2015-01-27T20:33:26Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Why not just stick your finger down your throat, it’d be a lot cheaper? > > Seriously, making yourself puke like that doesn’t sound all that healthy. He wrote his OP confusingly. I think he’s saying, in the \*absence \*of Mylanta, his next-best alternative is puking. Mylanta makes it so he doesn’t need to puke. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mylanta-no-longer-made/710817/22 "2015-01-28T00:30:48Z")
Well, I hope that’s what he meant then! Deliberately making yourself puke definetly isn’t a good idea, even if it makes you feel better physically. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mylanta-no-longer-made/710817/23 "2015-01-29T07:44:42Z")
Doesn’t help the OP much but at the Supermarket yesterday they had Mylanta on the shelf. Both original and double strength. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mylanta-no-longer-made/710817/24 "2015-01-29T14:19:43Z")
Was there something superior about Mylanta liquid over the store brand? I have Equate or some kind of store brand of the liquid at home and it is pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mylanta-no-longer-made/710817/25 "2015-01-29T16:01:51Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > Prilosec, Nexium, and Prevacid are all OTC in the US now. Protonix (pantoprazole) is still prescription only. Read the last line of my post: “Even the H2-antagonists are being pushed pretty hard by the OTC proton-pump inhibitors in the past few years.” I know that they’re OTC, and AFAIK, they’re still being prescribed. (I actually have a box of generic omeprazole at home) ---
**Author:** ![Lidarose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lidarose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lidarose)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mylanta-no-longer-made/710817/26 "2016-06-27T02:38:44Z")
Guess what? J & J did what so many other companies have done when they have a product recall, and it’s not cost effective to re-label or remake their product…they sell it to another company, (InFirst Healthcare, Inc., based in London, the UK), and make some money on the deal! This is what was done with Bufferin when it was recalled a few years ago and it’s now been done with Mylanta! No more wonderful Cherry Mylanta, and this new company doubled the ingredients’ amounts from 400 mg. to 800 mg. each, (the Symethicone from 40 mg. to 80 mg.). This is the world we now live in, folks! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mylanta-no-longer-made/710817/27 "2016-06-27T15:37:22Z")
Altoids, OP. Altoids. That is all ye need to know. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mylanta-no-longer-made/710817/28 "2016-06-27T17:15:54Z")
This actually goes fairly far back. I liked Mylanta antacid pills. But, they contained aluminum! The horror, packing a metal known to cause Alzheimer’s Disease! What horrid people! What? The aluminum = Alzheimer’s thing isn’t true? Well, never mind. Nonetheless, Mylanta pills with aluminum in them got scarce. Their liquids still have it. Maybe the liquid form is stabler than the pill version or something. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mylanta-no-longer-made/710817/29 "2016-06-27T19:30:14Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > What does that mean? Just curious. _Prepper_ is a term applied to those who store materials for upcoming catastrophes. Typically, MREs, medical supplies, knives, fishing gear, stuff like that. Here is a list of 30 some uses for baking soda from a prepper site. [http://tacticalintelligence.net/blog/36-awesome-baking-soda-uses-for-preppers.htm](http://tacticalintelligence.net/blog/36-awesome-baking-soda-uses-for-preppers.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Lidarose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lidarose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lidarose)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mylanta-no-longer-made/710817/30 "2016-07-02T21:16:29Z")
> [@Lidarose](#): > > Guess what? J & J did what so many other companies have done when they have a product recall, and it’s not cost effective to re-label or remake their product…they sell it to another company, (InFirst Healthcare, Inc., based in London, the UK), and make some money on the deal! > > This is what was done with Bufferin when it was recalled a few years ago and it’s now been done with Mylanta! No more wonderful Cherry Mylanta, and this new company doubled the ingredients’ amounts from 400 mg. to 800 mg. each, (the Symethicone from 40 mg. to 80 mg.). > > This is the world we now live in, folks! :rolleyes: Also, folks, you may recall when Maalox was recalled many years ago. They didn’t even bother looking to sell it to another company, they simply never brought it back to market! Cheap is cheap!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mylanta-no-longer-made/710817.md?page=1)