These are list of ten drugs you should not take with tetracycline:
- Amoxicillin: Tetracycline reduces the effect of amoxicillin.
- Ampicillin
- Magnessium hydroxide: It inhibits the absorption of tetracycline
- Iron sucrose
- Cholera vaccine: Wait for 14 days after the use of antibiotics before taking cholera vaccine. Taking cholera vaccine with antibiotics reduces the effectiveness of the vaccine.
- Aluminium hydroxide
- Lomitapide
- Tretinoin
- Bismuth subsalicylate: It inhibits the absorption of tetracycline.
- BCG vaccine.
Can you see the danger of Self-Medication? Speak with your Pharmacist today.
Pharm. Faleye Oyeyemi graduated from faculty of Pharmacy, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun Sate, Nigeria with distinctions and did her one year internship program at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Lagos after which she did her one year compulsory NYSC with National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Lagos.
Oyeyemi has earned herself Certification from University of Washington, Dublin in “Clinical Management of HIV and Leadership and Management in Health.”
Also, Oyeyemi is currently running her Masters program in Pharmaceutics.
She does not only portray academic excellence but the same in paying attention to details. She can be briefly described as a multi-talented fellow.
