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Hold off on the cheese if you're taking antibiotics

Posted: Apr 2nd 2008 11:18PM by Chris Sparling
Filed under: Food and Nutrition, Diet and Weight Loss, HealthWatch

If you're on antibiotics, or about to start taking them, you may want to steer clear of dairy products. Granted, your doctor will likely clue you in on this, but just in case he or she happens to forget (hey, doctors are human too), consider yourself informed.

This comes from a study conducted at the University of Maryland, where it was found that antibiotics, when mixed with diary products, bind to the calcium in the stomach. As a result, the antibiotics will not be fully digested, thereby rendering it less potent and less effective.

This doesn't mean that you have to stop eating calcium-rich foods if you're on antibiotics; rather, it simply means that you should not take the medication around the same time you've eaten some dairy products. The researchers recommend waiting around two hours after eating calcium-rich foods to take antibiotics.



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