Atazanavir; Nelfinavir/Vonoprazan Interactions
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Serious. These medicines may interact and cause very harmful effects. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
Proton pump inhibitors increase the pH (decrease the acidity) of your stomach. Atazanavir and nelfinavir need an acidic environment to be absorbed by your body.
What might happen:
The amount of atazanavir or nelfinavir in your blood may decrease and they may not work as well against your HIV infection.
What you should do about this interaction:
Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) right away about using these medicines together. Your doctor may want to check the amount of atazanavir or nelfinavir in your blood, as well as your viral load. Your doctor may want to change your medicines.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.Voquezna (vonoprazan-amoxicillin and vonoprazan-amoxicillin-clarithromycin) US prescribing information. Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. November, 2023.
- 2.Reyataz (atazanavir sulfate) US prescribing information. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company November, 2023.
- 3.Reyataz (atazanavir sulfate) Australian product information. Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals October 25, 2023.
- 4.Viracept (nelfinavir mesylate) US prescribing information. Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. September, 2016.
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