OTC Xenical?

as seen on Pharmalot.

The group also charges that Alli, which is a version of Roche’s Xenical prescription med, has minimal effectiveness, potentially harmful side effects and “uncertain risks.” These include orange undies caused by oily stools, which Glaxo acknowledges should prompt some consumers to take extra undies to work, just in case

I am not sure when OTC Xenical will arrive here in the United Kingdom. I have no doubt that there will be a huge demand for it. Be prepared for weeks of breathless coverage in the health pages of desperate tabloids such as The Daily Mail, articles on Daytime television.

And who will the patients who come in for it? They'll be the patients who are mildly overweight at best. In my experience the genuinely overweight and obese do not come in for slimming products, at least in the pharmacies where I work. Maybe one reaches the point of no return when one reaches a BMI of 35+? Maybe the patient is too busy eating cakes to come into the pharmacy?

It's the same with weight loss medication on prescription. We very rarely dispense it to the grossly overweight, we only tend to get prescriptions for those patients who are a "little bit tubby." Well tubby and persuasive/tubby and friendly with the doctor.

By the way, you now the perfect excuse to take an extra pair of pants to work, how useful! Probably best if you make them an orange pair.