info@lpf:
This sounds like witch doctoring without research! If the acidic content of soft drinks were enough to induce a chemical reaction from medicines, why then is it even fit for consumption? This is BULL CRAP in my humble, non-medical, but common sense having, opinion! Drinking medicine with milk also WILL NOT reduce the efficacy of your medicine! Dont believe everything you read, do your own research or ask your own doctor. Nonsense!

Mumu a pharmacist (professionally trained in drug manufacure, packagin and dispensin) has given an advice and u say u wanna ask ur doctor (a professional trained to detect difwent disease conditions, diagnose and cary out surgery if need b). Even a doctor wld refer u to a pharmacist regardin issues like dis.

U are right dude, just dont knw y sum pple are stife necked towards doing wat dey reali knw its right, God wil help us

Dats true dude

TUMIC: Ilorin - A pharmacist, Busayo Idowu of the Department of Pharmacy, University of Ilorin
Teaching Hospital (UITH), warned on Saturday that taking drugs with beverages such as soft drinks could have adverse effects.
In an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin, Idowu said that drugs, if taken with soft drinks might affect the absorption of the drugs. The expert noted that most soft drinks were acidic, which could decrease the anti bacterial action of tetracycline as they contain
carbonates. Idowu warned further that such acidic drinks
when combined with drugs could cause adverse reaction to patients.
According to him, absorption of some drugs such as aspirin, ketoconazole and phenytoin
could be affected also when taking with acidic beverage. He added that such drugs were best absorbed at highly acidic levels when taken orally.

"Acidic beverages delay the absorption rate and action of Erythromycin”, he said. He advised that drugs should preferably be used with water as it had the properties capable of eliminating unwanted effects.
I word is enough for the wise.

NAN
http://nigeria.news24.com/National/News/Stop-taking-drugs-with-soft-drinks-expert-warns-20130310

firstly, the time the drugs and soft drink spends in the mouth is hardly up to 10 seconds. The stomach where the drugs first goes to has a pH of 1.0-3.5, which is more acidic than most soft drinks which is less than 5.5. so does the soft drink really make any difference to the medication we take?

secondly, most tetracycline drugs are encapsulated, with the active ingredient inside the capsule, this means that it takes a long time for the drug to be absorbed into the bloodstream, or react with the system. on the other hand, soft drinks are liquid and are easily adsorbed and excreted from the system so does this make any difference??

PS, i'm not an expert, but would like to learn

Don't Do This;Don't Do That;Which One We Go Do naaa,Abeg Leave Me Make I Live My Life Joor

Please The pharmacist was not referring to ALL DRUGS OO!! Its just for some of them

Seun: What about milk? I've found that taking some drugs with milk seems to eliminate the bitter aftertaste. Milk is not acidic, so I guess it should be ok.

Not with certain drugs like Tetracyline. Milk forms a non-absorbable complex with it, rendering the drug useless.

However for fatty drugs like artemether/lumefantrine (Coartem, lonart, etc) milk will actually increase the absorption and its use is in fact recommended for taking drugs like the aforementioned.

firstly, the time the drugs and soft drink spends in the mouth is hardly up to 10 seconds. The stomach where the drugs first goes to has a pH of 1.0-3.5, which is more acidic than most soft drinks which is less than 5.5. so does the soft drink really make any difference to the medication we take?

Not necessarily. some like grape juice can be as low as 2.5.

secondly, most tetracycline drugs are encapsulated, with the active ingredient inside the capsule, this means that it takes a long time for the drug to be absorbed into the bloodstream, or react with the system. on the other hand, soft drinks are liquid and are easily adsorbed and excreted from the system so does this make any difference??

The capsule will dissolve in about 10 seconds after ingestion, which gives it plenty of time to react with the 'soft drink'.

TUMIC: Ilorin - A pharmacist, Busayo Idowu of the Department of Pharmacy, University of Ilorin
Teaching Hospital (UITH), warned on Saturday that taking drugs with beverages such as soft drinks could have adverse effects.
In an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin, Idowu said that drugs, if taken with soft drinks might affect the absorption of the drugs. The expert noted that most soft drinks were acidic, which could decrease the anti bacterial action of tetracycline as they contain
carbonates. Idowu warned further that such acidic drinks
when combined with drugs could cause adverse reaction to patients.
According to him, absorption of some drugs such as aspirin, ketoconazole and phenytoin
could be affected also when taking with acidic beverage. He added that such drugs were best absorbed at highly acidic levels when taken orally.

"Acidic beverages delay the absorption rate and action of Erythromycin”, he said. He advised that drugs should preferably be used with water as it had the properties capable of eliminating unwanted effects.
I word is enough for the wise.

NAN
http://nigeria.news24.com/National/News/Stop-taking-drugs-with-soft-drinks-expert-warns-20130310

It appears there was some confusion with the article. The 'acidic drink prohibition' doesn't apply to all drugs, only those that are basic (alkaline-loving) in nature. The reason is simple chemistry: A basic drug in an acidic environment will lead to ionization of the former which will render it charged and consequently less lipid soluble. This makes it difficult for the drug to penetrate the layer (also lipid in nature) that separates the lining of stomach/small intestine from the blood stream. Aspirin, an acidic drug, is actually better absorbed in an acidic environment.


Just to be safe, it better too use, wherever possible a neutral compound - yeah you guessed it: [size=17pt]WATERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR[/size]!!!!!!

brosss: Well, softdrinks works most times for me......
Don't seee the point friend.
First of, its easier as it eliminates the bitter taste.
Second, soft drink gives you quick easy to absorb nutrients,especially when your appetite is gone.
Thirdly, it helps abate the effect of some strong pills on empty stomach.
Trust me mate, when you are sick and you throw up all the food you force into you, including ur drugs, you'll definitely want to try out soft drinks....... They always come to the rescue


My humble opinion

A word they say is enough 4 d wise.

konn: many people are a victim of these "MENANCE" a word is enough for the wise

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Hmmmm!!!! I want to believe that's Typo!!!

jmichael:

Mumu a pharmacist (professionally trained in drug manufacure, packagin and dispensin) has given an advice and u say u wanna ask ur doctor (a professional trained to detect difwent disease conditions, diagnose and cary out surgery if need b). Even a doctor wld refer u to a pharmacist regardin issues like dis.

Jmichael, YOU, infact are the mumu, because your statement has proven that you are ignorant, at best. Do you know the courses of study of a trained Pharmacist and Medical Doctor? Clearly not. Medical doctors in most parts of the civilized world study pharmacology, as part of the comprehensive field of study. Pharmacists, on the other hand, are trained only in pharmacology and end up as medicine dispensers. For your information, most pharmaceutical companies hire Medical Doctors usually with PhD's, not dispensing pharmacists to run their research departments. Research DOctors are the ones who devote their lives to curing ailments through medical research which more often than not results in the invention of medicines. There is a reason why Pharmacists earn between $60K - $120K and Doctors $100 and up! They are better scientists, and better prepared for the science of curing ailments!

Pharmacists and Doctors now work hand in hand, but my Doctor is better trained, and better prepared to detect and help cure any ailments than a pharmacist, even in her sleep! In the USA, pharmacists are found dispensing medicine, acting as an advisory buffer between the physician and the patient at the point where you go get your medicine. No medical doctor or pharmacist in the US, UK or Nigeria has ever told me that soft drinks would reduce the efficacy of my medicine!

I insist it is witch doctoring directed at inducing panic or to get cheap publicity. The so-called pharmacist should come out with empirical research that proves her statement! That is what a true scientist would do.

noted.

Most people are guilty of this just because of ignorance,but thanks for the awareness

Seun: What about milk? I've found that taking some drugs with milk seems to eliminate the bitter aftertaste. Milk is not acidic, so I guess it should be ok.

Milk with antibiotic is poison; please dont go there! Be warned.

dbride: Milk with antibiotic is poison; please dont go there! Be warned.

Source?

Seun: Source?

Mu husband has just finished a course of antibiotics and it was boldly written on the pack that he shouldn't take it with milk. I think it is something to do with the milk stopping the antibiotics from being absorbed.

Some antibiotics have an instruction of taking it 30 minutes before food. Different antibiotocs; different instructions

dbride:

Milk with antibiotic is poison; please don't go there! Be warned.

No need for the alarm. Like I said above, milk will form a complex the tetracyline rendering it unable to be absorbed into the blood stream where it can perform its work. As a result the drug passes though the gut and ends up in the toilet without accomplishing what it was supposed to. There's nothing really poisonous about it.

Its noteworthy that it not just milk, but any product containing what is called 'divalent cations' eg mist mag commonly used for ulcer. Coadmiminstration with tetracyline will prevent the latter from being absorbed.

chaircover:

Mu husband has just finished a course of antibiotics and it was boldly written on the pack that he shouldn't take it with milk. I think it is something to do with the milk stopping the antibiotics from being absorbed.

Some antibiotics have an instruction of taking it 30 minutes before food. Different antibiotocs; different instructions

@bolded, Precisely.

Some can be taken on an empty stomach, others are better absorbed with food; some can be taken with milk, some cannot.

So its a good idea to always go through the product leaflet which contains instructions, usually jargon-free, on how best to take the drug, or better still confirm form your doctor or pharmacist.

Drugs should be taken with clean water only, thanks for reminding this fact other readers, I am sure someone will find this info helpful. Water washes the pills down and digests them faster, thus working faster. Not drinking water can make the pills lodged, so you need water. I use this simple rule no matter which pills I take, from a local drugs store, from https://www.genericspharmacyonline.com/ or ordered in Canada.

Be warned...do. Not take drugs like tetracycline wit milk, coz the minerals in milk tends to form insoluble complexes with d drug