[Avodah] Taking Tums On Shabbos and/or Yom Tov?

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, November 3, 2006 2:27 pm, R M Cohen wrote:
:> Are Tums considered candy or medicine in regard to taking on Shabbos..

: R Shlomo Miller (Rosh kollel and posek Lakewood and Toronto) holds that
: taking Tums (and similar types of things) are mutar to take before the
: illness (ie heartburn) has arrived.

Similarly, on Sat, November 4, 2006 11:36 am, R Mike Miller wrote:
: Many people take Tums as a calcium supplement (both pro-actively and
: in response to low calcium), so they may have a din of vitamins.

As I see it, this would mean that Tums (TM) would require a hechsher. Taking
treif vitamins or gray-area medicine on Shabbos would seem to me to be a tarta
desasrei.

This is Areivim-esque, but just to wrap up that end of things: Some forms of
Tums have a hecsher (star-K says you can use the ones with a diamond-K), some
do not, and of those that are kosher, some are chalav stam (thus milchig).

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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