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15/01/2018 2:01 pm
A lot of questions here boil down to ‘can I take X with Y’. We shouldn’t answer those as if we’re pharmacists, but we could point people to reliable places to check first. My suggestion for the pinned post:
- The patient information leaflet in the box (seriously, read the interactions section).
- Your national medicines regulator’s product information.
- Asking a pharmacist, which is free in most countries.
- A short explanation of why grapefruit, St John’s wort and alcohol come up so often.
Plus a reminder that ‘no interaction found’ in a checker is not the same as ‘safe for you’.
15/01/2018 2:46 pm
Add the FDA’s label database for US folks. It has the full prescribing information, which is far more detailed than the patient leaflet.
15/01/2018 3:18 pm
For UK readers, the patient leaflets for almost everything licensed here are searchable online through the MHRA product information. Agree with the last point especially.