Drug interact with the actions

Drug Interactions & Its Introduction:

“The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine”. – William Osler, M.D.

Drug Interaction: A mechanism by which a drug interact with the action(s) of another drug or the modification of the action of a drug by the concurrent or prior administration of another drug is known as drug interaction. When we talk about drug interaction, generally interaction between the drugs comes in mind (Drug-Drug interaction). It has been observed that interaction may also exist between drugs & foods (Drug-food interaction), as well as drugs & herbs (Drug-herbs interactions).

Mostly drug interaction should be avoided as it may produce unexpected or poor outcomes. Sometimes it is used intentionally, as it may help in retarding the excretion of useful drug molecule, who presence in the body can heal the disease during the course of the therapy.

Example of Beneficial Drug Interaction:

• Carbidopa with levodopa (Available as Carbidopa/levodopa)·
• Probenecid with penicillin·
• Reduces the risk of side effects

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