Loperamide/simethicone Loperamide/simethicone Loperamide/simethicone is combination medication marketed under the trade name Imodium Multi-Symptom Relief (formerly Imodium A-D Advanced) used to treat diarrhea and gas simultaneously. It is manufactured by the McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division of McNeil PPC, Inc. Loperamide is a μ-opioid receptor agonist that works in the intestines. Although it is an opioid, it has no effects on the central nervous system. It reduces diarrhea by slowing the transit time of contents through the intestinal tract thereby allowing more water to be reabsorbed from the intestinal lumen. Simethicone reduces gas by allowing smaller gas bubbles to coalesce into larger bubbles
Invitation to treat in the "Boots" case (described below) the offer is made by an action without any negotiations—such as presenting goods to a cashier—the offer will be presumed to be on the terms of the invitation to treat. Generally, advertisements are not offers but invitations to treat, so the person advertising is not compelled to sell. In "Partridge v Crittenden" [1968] 1 WLR 1204, a defendant who was charged with "offering for sale protected birds"—bramblefinch cocks and hens that he had advertised for sale in a newspaper—was "not" offering to sell them. Lord Parker CJ said it did not make business sense