Mixing Medications and Dietary Supplements Can Endanger Your Health

Mixing Medications and Dietary Supplements Can Endanger Your Health.

When you take prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) medications, do you take also a vitamin, mineral, or other dietary supplements? Have you considered whether there is any danger in mixing medications and dietary supplements?

There could be, says Robert Mozersky, a medical officer at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “Some dietary supplements may increase the effect of your medication, and other dietary supplements may decrease it,” he says.

Source Press Release www.fda.gov

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