RNAgent’s Drug Interaction Database indexes and lists prescription drugs and their interactions with herbal supplements. Search by letter or keyword to find a prescription drug and its interactions with herbal and natural ingredients.
Cefaclor
- Take with food or milk for stomach upset.
- Facts and Comparisons, Clinisphere 2.0, Wolters Kluwer Company, 2000
- Avoid alcohol
- Pronsky, Z Food Medication Interactions, 11th edition, 1999
- Avoid taking cefaclor together with antacids, because they could interfere with drug absorption.
- Facts and Comparisons, Clinisphere 2.0, Wolters Kluwer Company, 2000.
- Antibiotics may kill friendly intestinal bacteria. They may also cause an overgrowth of other bacteria or fungus (candidiasis). Supplementation with acidophilus or bifidus (probiotics) may alleviate superinfections or oral thrush
- Pronsky, Z Food Medication Interactions, 11th edition, 1999
- Cummings JH, Macfarlane G: Role of intestinal bacteria in nutrient metabolism, JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, 1997, 21(6): 357-65
- Bengmark S & Gianotti L: Nutritional support to prevent and treat multiple organ failure. World J Surg, 1996 May, 20:4, 474-81.
- Gorbach SL: Bengt E. Gustafsson Memorial Lecture, Function of the Normal Human Microflora, Scand J Infect Dis Suppl, 1986, 49:17-30
- The B vitamins may be depleted with longterm antibiotic use. Supplementation may be necessary.
- Cummings JH, Macfarlane G: Role of intestinal bacteria in nutrient metabolism, JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, 1997, 21(6): 357-65
- Deguchi Y, et al: Comparitive studies on synthesis of water-soluble vitamins among human species of Bifidobacteria, Argic Biol Chem, 1985, 19 (1): 13-19.
- Sodium content may be an issue for those on a low sodium diet
- Pronsky, Z Food Medication Interactions, 11th edition, 1999
- Cephalosporins may affect vitamin K levels in the body. Although short term use of these antibiotics are not associated with any problems, longer durations of use may pose risks.
- Anonymous. New examples of vitamin K-drug interaction. Nutr Rev 1984;42(4):161-63 .
- Shils M, et al. (eds.). Modern nutrition in health and disease, 9th ed. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1999: 1634
- Feverfew, Ginkgo and Garlic all have anticoagulant properties, this may theoretically interfere with some cephalosporins, due to their known interactions with coumadin.
- Facts and Comparisons, Clinisphere 2.0, Wolters Kluwer Company, 2000
- PDR for Herbal Medicines, 2nd edition, Medical Economics Company, 2000