Entacapone/Oral Iron Supplements Interactions
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Medical warning:
Moderate. These medicines may cause some risk when taken together. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
When these two medications are taken together, they may bind together in your stomach. Entacapone may bind to your iron supplement, preventing it from being absorbed. Some multivitamins may contain iron and can be affected as well.
What might happen:
The amount of entacapone and iron you absorb into your body may decrease.
What you should do about this interaction:
Let your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know that you are taking these medicines together. Do not take your iron supplement within 2-3 hours before or after entacapone. Your doctor may want to check your iron levels to see if your supplement is working.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
- 1.Entacapone UK summary of prescribing characteristics. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. December, 2017.
- 2.Comtan (entacapone) US prescribing information. Orion Corporation February, 2016.
- 3.Stalveo (carbidopa; entacapone; levodopa) US Prescribing Information. Orion/Novartis December, 2019.
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