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Originally Posted by fatima
echinacea is not known to interact with tetracycline. With calcium and zinc, its not so much an interaction...but they complex together in the stomach and prevent absorbtion of the antibiotic. so you can take it, just make sure its either an hour before, or 2 hours after taking the tetracycline so it will have time to pass through and be absorbed first.
as far as the vitamin C...its usually pretty high doses of it that they say are effective. so i guess you could get it from orange juice...but thats a lot of juice (and lots of sugar/calories too). so i guess youre better off with a supplement. im not sure about canada, but here you can buy products like cold-eez cough drops and airborne...those have everything all together so you dont have to get them seperately.  |
Orange juice doesn't have sugar. Does it?
But yeah... obviously you can't ever drink that much OJ.
I don't take calcium or zinc anyway; I was just wondering.
I think I should start taking a calcium supplement though, for my bones. Who wants osteoporosis, right? And I don't want my wrists to get worse. I'll see my doctor about it. Thanks for your help!
