Wiil Ranitidine Produce A False Positive For Methamphetimines In Hair Follicle Test And Where Is The Proof?

While I was pregnant I was prescribed to take ranitidine for heartburn. After my child was born I took a urine test that came up negative. Cps sent these sample off and said I tested positive for meth. I submitted to a hair test on my child and a nail test on myself. The results were positive for meth. The Metabolites were very low in both of us but the amphetimine levels were high, but I had ephedrine during the c section. Will ranitidine cause a false positive in a hair test and where is the documented proof? They have taken my newborn away from me its five days now without touching or seeing her. I am desperate to get my baby back. If a doctor responds please be willing to submit documentation in writing. Thank you to anyone with the answer.

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This is terrible!!! And yes zantac does give a false positive for Meth.... Google it and there is documentation. I take zantac and had a drug test through my job and it came back positive for Meth. MY DOCTER gave me documentation to prove I wasn't on this terrible drug (Meth) along with some ducuments I printed from Google I was able to keep my job!

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Thank you mam for responding. You have been the only one. Since this post I have been found to be a mother of severe child abuse and neglect. It's now been four months. What doctor gave you this documentation? I will go to the ends of the earth to obtain it. My baby tested positive for marijuania but I did not. The whole ordeal has been a nightmare. Pray for my family and give me the Dr s name and I will contact him. Again thank you for responding. God is working.

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Hey, this is happening to me as well. I had my daughter taken away from me by the DYP/CPS @ 2 days old.
I was taking ranitidine as well and tested positive for meth. Which I have never used. I had to submit
My hair sample, and we are waiting for results. We have our daughter back, but under my boyfriends custody, and we have to live at his parents house, and do random drug tests (which we've passed, cause were not users or addicts)
I cannot find a doctor, nurse, lab tech or
Pharmacist who is even willing to say that this is possible.
Please contact me so we can communicate. I hope everything got sorted out for you. This is a nightmare, and until this I thought I was the only one.

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It is eight months now. Still do not have my daughter. I am writing the governor today. I am going public also. I have three scientific studies that say zantac will cause a false positive. I have done their classes and passed all their drug screens. Now they are trying to bring criminal charges against me. The nightmare continues. Pray for us. I miss my little girl so much.

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Oh my goodness. I am so sorry :(
After 2 drug tests that came back negative and my hair strand test came back completely negative the DYP dropped everything and let us go home.
Have they done a hair strand test?
My heart goes out to you and your fam. Please email me. {edited for privacy}

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here are 2 studies i have found, hope this gets resolved for you if you truly are innocent.

medscape.com/viewarticle/726897

dig.pharm.uic.edu/faq/2011/Feb/faq1.aspx

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Need prayer really bad today please.

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I just saw your story, I will pray for you and your baby tonight, this is a terrible situation. Do you have legal representation? Can't your doctor help? Have you asked them to retest you when you have stopped taking the ranitidine? Best wishes and good luck to you and your family

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Im experiencing a similair situation plz let me knw if this hair folicle test helped. If this zantac medication caused a false positive for the folicle test as well. Ty godbless {edited for privacy}

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Plz help three children taken by cps i tested positive for meth while taking ranitidine plz let me knw about any doc laywers or avenues we might take to prove my innocence. I have read on other forums and sites ppl hace actually tested positive in a hair folicle test because of zantac. I requested a hair folicle test to proove my innocence.any links or info wld be much apreciated. Plz pray for us. Godbless u.

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I haven't met one doctor who wants to say its the cause, just that it could happen but they don't say a yes or no.
I passed my hair strand test, and I find it hard to fail that if you're not on drugs.
That being said, please read the links I posted they are Uni studies about urine tests and blood and this subject.
If you are innocent I hope it gets proven.
Either way, if CPS is in your life its better to just co operating because unfortunately they have too much power. Innocent or not.. Good luck

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Need help im posting on this site again in hopes that i can get sonething to print out to take to court wirh me tom morning. My eight yr old daughtsr and my one yr old aswell as my four week old are the ones suffering frm this situation the most. At this moment my children are in foster care based on a urine sample taken that was taken. Lab results have not come in yet. I requested the lab further look into this matter and a hair folicle test to prove my innocents. But i go before the judge tom morning neither set of results will be back by then. The cps wrker will not hear me out and is absolutely convinced i was using methanphedimines. She claims she printed out a report that the company gave her stating that since 2007 the made the needed adjustments to the medication to ensure that there were no more false positives. But clearly since myself and other innocent people are falling victim of this issue. Im not sure if or what the company states in this disclaimer she said she printed out or if it is claimin that under lab analizex urine there are no more fp test, or any of the details but i do however knw that any documented prove of this will help us bring lighg to this. If anyone has anything at all that might be halpfull to me i beg you to plz post here and help our family bring jusyice for our little girls. Thank you

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Please print the studies i posted. There is proof all over the Internet. Perhaps they can set conditions for you and you live under supervision, but be with your children. Until hair folicle test comes back. I send you strength and hope everything will work out in your favor in time. Stay positive for your kids. This will all be over if it is infact a fp. I wish someone would help us. But I guess we have to fend for ourselves. Hang In there

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I hitred a good female lawyer and my husband has one we are goin to crt this mrning i went and had a hair folicle test done yesterday independently the doctor i used is an expert and has fifteen yrs of experience. He is the go to guy for the crts and even dhr in a surounding county.
He said he wld testify that ranitidine causes false positive test all the time and that he wld help in any way he could.

I was so relieved that someone the judge trust agteed with us and sympathized eith this crazy sutuation.

Thank u for your help and godbless you plz pray for us!

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How did court go? I wish I could find a doctor to testify the same. If he is willing to get in touch with me, though I am in Canada that would be amazing.
Hope all went well

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Court went as expected the social wrkers are convinced that i failed that test but i past mpassed my hair folicle test so we will see wht happens....keep u updated.

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If you pass the hair folicle test, the time you tested positive in that blood or urine test would show up if it was real drugs. If the hair test is negative it should prove to them it was your medication. How messed up is it that we have to do this research as follow up?
I'm paying 400$ to get my own hair test to show the days they think I used. I wonder what they'll do when they see there was never any drugs in my system..
I'm doing a television report on this, the tv crew is coming tomorrow. The public will hear about this.

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Someone needs to do something thats for sure. U mentioned a tv crew is it for tv as in cable or news? My lawyer contacted zantac there is a huge fda investigation goin on zantac released a legal printout that explained that Zantac is indeed causing False positives. But still nothing has concinced the case workers not even the hair strand test. Even tho its valid proof. I feel powerless. My kids and i dont deserve this. Let me knw how things are going when u can ...

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The news are here in Canada. And I want to see that thing Zantac released. I also submitted my
Hair and paid for a test to show the days in question.

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The news are here in Canada. And I want to see that thing Zantac released. I also submitted my
Hair and paid for a test to show the days in question.
Will be on CBC news at 6. I hope you can tune in via Internet maybe.

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Re: mrscall (# 27)

I need your help as well please

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Re: Adam in KC (# 104)


Our experts in this field need to be humble enough to recognize that technology will continue to advance, and an open mind could mean literally the difference between a child being thrown into the system. These are people's lives we are talking about. Going through that was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life.

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Re: Adam in KC (# 104)

Please take a second to check this out...

Source: "GC-MS IS NOT PERFECT: THE CASE STUDY OF METHAMPHETAMINE". thetruthaboutforensicscience.com. Web. April 12th, 2011.

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Re: childless in tn (# 2)

I've been taking Zantac 150 for months and was recently trying to get a job, but I failed a drug test. They said I was on the this drug and I've never even seen it in my life. I don't mess with drugs of any kind. Not only did I fail this drug test, it goes on my work records. It's time for us as Americans to step up and do something about this Zantac 150 or 175 if you ask me for my opinion.

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Re: mrs call (# 10)

I take drug tests for my doctor and almost always fail for methamphetamine from taking zantac. They always give me a mouth swab and I pass... so maybe ask for that. I hope this helps you.

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Re: jerry (# 44)

I have to take a hair follicle test and I've been taking zantac. Will it show positive for methamphetamine?

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Society has deemed certain street drugs unacceptable. Heroin, methamphetamine, crack. There's a lot of disinformation out there and a ton of ignorance... First of all, I've done every drug in the book. Cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin/opium, methamphetamine, special K, MDMA OR MDA, acid, psilocybin mushrooms, DMT, all types of benzodiazepines, all types of narcotic opioid pharmaceutical drugs. The pharmaceutical companies worldwide sell billions of dollars worth of heroin and methamphetamine to people every year, the thing is they put fancy names on it, with fancy logos, manufactured in sterile labs with all the ingredients controlled by the FDA and with lots and lots of quality control and finally, marketing. Because you get it from your ever so trusted family doctor, you consider it acceptable and ok, politically correct even. They do have pills called Methamphetamine HCI and IR. Although prescribed very limited throughout the country, it is available, you can get it prescribed to you from any doctor legally and pick it up at your local Walgreens. It was mainly used for diet decades ago but still very rarely these days.. If it all used its used for certain conditions like brain injuries, misfiring of the brain signals and for certain types of nerve damage and paralysis to help recovery.. Also used for adult deficits of hyperactivity and hyperfocus conditions. Although rarely.. Mostly you'll get dexadrine or adderall which is both a strong amphetamine and has the same effect as methamphetamine, just not molecularly identical.

OPIOID PAIN KILLERS aka LEGAL ACCEPTABLE HEROIN you can buy from your local pharmacy via your doctor's usually reluctant recommendation. Billions of $$ worth sold annually. We accept it because it's "approved" by the FDA, manufactured in a sterile environment and ingredients are considered safe and we know what's in it (we think we know what's really in food and drugs approved by the FDA). The differences between pharmaceutical drugs and street drugs is obvious. Street drugs do have quality control standards and cars and thought is put into the original product at its origin but once it starts getting into hands of the middle men, the big dealers and the little dealers, the drugs often get cut down, watered down with "neutral" ingredients to make the product weigh more or go further. You probably wont believe this but the amount deaths every year due to unknown dangerous ingredients in heroin, coke and methamphetamineare just a tiny fraction compared to the deaths from unknown or unexpected side effects from the supposed "safe" and socially accepted pharmaceutical drugs we take in the USA. The media, police, etc, they aren't going to tell you that pharmaceutical drugs are responsible for more deaths every year than methamphetamine, coke and heroin. And they keep pushing the idea that street drugs are high up on the deadly list. It's easy to frown upon street drugs and not frown upon their cousins which are pharmaceutical drugs. Pharmacy drugs are tested, controlled, clean, safe, right? Street drugs are completely unregulated, largely untested, contain really nasty ingredients like diesel fuel byproducts in cocaine, solvents and industrial cleaning products in methamphetamine, and so on...

Well according to studies, the amount of those byproducts in street compared to how much street drugs are ingested, they've never really been known to cause any deadly harm if used off and on or during a ten year addiction.. Nope, it's actually the opiates, the various benzodiazepines and the countless psychotropic, psychiatric and other dangerous mind and brain pathway altering substances that are the most deadly. Partially from the pure fact of physical addiction from opiates and benzos and the other psychiatric medicine cocktails that do ireversible damage to your brain, serotonin, various other chemicals that get permanently imbalanced.. And we're all being told every day that street drugs are a bigger issue? Bulls***. I've done every drug that has recreational potential and I've did my experiments. I've had my fun and out of all those drugs, the one drug that messed me up the most mentally and physically was the benzodiazepines and psychiatric medicines, anti depression, anti anxiety, etc etc etc... I don't remember which of the 100 anti depressant pills I took but it threw me into a different world by the second day and it had terrible side effects that took months to go away and I only took them for a week. No street drug or recreational drug has ever messed me up for months or even more than a few days, nothing more than a little hangover. I AM NOT CONDONING THE USE OF HEROIN, COCAINE, METHAMPHETAMINE, K, any street drug, MDMA OR THE ABUSE OF ANY PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG. To the right person, it really does only take that one time because without that one first time, a drug addiction to that drug could not ever begin.. So if you aren't like me and cannot stop taking a drug that you love the feel of, if you have a weak mind or weak will power, have an addictive personality, don't try heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine or any controlled pharmaceutical drug. I don't condone it all but I do not support the entire anti-drug movements.

People are going to take the drugs they want to take, period. Prison, fines, etc, is not going to stop it. People either have their fun with the drugs or ruin their life on their own. We don't need the govt ruining it further. If you have a methamphetamine or heroin addiction, it controls your every thought and you are most likely going to be possessing the drug.. In many states still, any amount of methamphetamine or heroin or crack is an instant felony and often mandatory jail.. Plus you have to give the state money you don't have. As if your life isn't already bad enough, the govt steps in and makes it worst.. You lose your possessions, job if you have one, car, apartment you're renting.... All so they can throw you in jail for a year. The criminalization of drugs in the USA has not proven a single thing good.. It's done mostly harm.. Making it highly illegal hasn't reduced its quantity in the USA at all!!! It's just made it more abundant because when it's forced to be taboo and illegal then it creates a hugely valuable black market for cartels and whoever else.. The CIA and DEA of course are all in on the drug trade but that's for another discussion. Point is, drugs are just drugs, the user makes them good or bad or neutral.. The main entity that has basically kept street drugs as evil as they are is the govt.. By not helping the addicts, instead they are focusing on punishment and controlling the substance because that's where the money is at.. There's no money is decriminalization.. It's too late to do what Netherlands have done.

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Re: Jen (# 97)

When the test is conducted in a lab using a laser or light retracting process, the machine is calibrated extremely precisely to give a reading on 20 to 30 various controlled substances or medicines. In that case a false positive for amphetamines via ingredients in Zantac should not happen unless there's a serious issue with the machine testing the urine. The only definite way to get a false positive from Zantac within the 2-4 day window is by using an instant urinalysis test kit or dip stick test. Those are designed to change color in a few different places from a chemical reaction due to certain drug substances being present in the urine.. Same concept as a pH test strip. It's very simple and not very reliable or precise. It's good enough for a quick test to hire a new employee, to make sure in the spot, they aren't a drug user but as I've said in so many ways above, you really shouldn't have anything to worry about if your urine is being sent to a blood and or urinalysis laboratory. That is unless they decide to be cheap and cut corners and test your urine with a simple test strip (which they've been known to do) if the customer doesn't order a detailed report on what's in the urine. Only a cheap and very unprofessional lab would do such things for customers who pay premium prices to have the urine sent and tested.. Good day

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I feel I need to clarify some facts regarding the Ranitidine (Zantac) causing false positives. Recently I've dealt with a situation where I had to warn my employer about possible urinalysis false positive for amphetamines because I took Zantac coincidentally for the first time a couple days before my drug screen. YOU WILL most likely experience a false positive for amphetamines, not just methamphetamines but all other amphetamines if you take 100mg or more of Zantac 2 to 3 days before your drug screen WHEN an instant drug screen is utilized. For example, the little urine cups with the test strip built in, or when the provider of the test uses a dip stick or other same day or instant test methods. KEEP IN MIND, IF your urine will be sent to an offsite professional drug screening lab, 95% of the time the urine will actually be processed through a thorough laser or light refraction test inside an automatic machine that is pre-calibrated to test for a very long list of controlled or semi controller substances. When urine is tested using this lab method, you will not receive a false positive because you ingested Zantac. The test is very detailed and specific for each individual substance it tests for so a false positive is extremely unlikely. ALTHOUGH, I have heard many stories of these labs cutting corners and just using simple cheap dip sticks for the urine if the lab knows the test is simply a screen for employment to check for heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, thc, etc...

If your employer or whoever does not purchase the high-end results test printout then there's a chance your urine will not get the high tech thorough test and you may end up with a false positive. There's also a few other substances like poppy seeds, because if you happen to eat poppy seeds from a place that gets organic unwashed seeds, the opiate level on the seeds can vary greatly throughout a bag of seeds... Also certain anti-diarrhea OTC medicine can give you a false positive for opiates. Hope this helps everybody! Remember, once you fail a drug test for a new job, is very hard to get a retest for many large corporations for safety and fraud issues and that first impression is hard to forget.. It'll always be in the back of your boss's head that you might really be on drugs. Also for court, often they just accept the first test result and trust the lab, making it very hard to talk them into giving a continuance and retest. The court wants you to fail usually.. They want you to plead guilty and pay the fine or end up losing your kid so the state gets to sell your kid via adoption and they get a lot of money for spitting out kids. Ever wonder why it seems CPS or family services are so eager to take your child and come up with any reason as an excuse to put your child in a foster home and adopt it out? Its all about money.

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Re: MsMelW73 (# 65)

Although, I somewhat agree, my gcms test came back positive also. But I take around 1000mg of Zantac daily after having gastric bypass surgery and have for a decade, so maybe it was built up in my system bc others were cleared after gcms testing. I did hair follicle to clear my name and it happened twice, around a decade ago also and Oct 2016.

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