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<blockquote data-quote="graceupongrace" data-source="post: 292442" data-attributes="member: 7371"><p>How frustrating is this?!</p><p></p><p>difficult child started on Zoloft not long ago. He caught a cold & was coughing a lot. psychiatrist said OTC remedies are OK, but gave us a couple of ingredients to avoid. I carefully avoided those & found some tablets with-dextromethorphan as the active ingredient. Checked the label -- it said to avoid interaction with MAOIs. OK, no problem. Checked with the pharmacist to be sure -- no problem. Checked the Zoloft patient information -- no problem.</p><p></p><p>He took a couple of the tablets, and seemed a little more irritable than he has been lately. So I went to the internet, and a couple of usually reliable websites said to avoid taking dextromethorphan with MAOIs <em>and SSRIs.</em> I went into a tailspin, and called the pharmacy. A very nice pharmacist spent 20 minutes on the phone with me while she checked her (presumably more reliable) pharmacology websites & books. She found no drug interaction warnings for SSRIs & detrometorphan. Her guess was that the consumer websites incorrectly included both categories of antidepressants in the warning. I felt better, but decided to go back to plain old Ricola cough drops anyway.</p><p></p><p>The moral of the story, I guess, is don't trust everything you read on the internet. Except this site, of course. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Anyone else have issues combining OTC & Rx medications?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="graceupongrace, post: 292442, member: 7371"] How frustrating is this?! difficult child started on Zoloft not long ago. He caught a cold & was coughing a lot. psychiatrist said OTC remedies are OK, but gave us a couple of ingredients to avoid. I carefully avoided those & found some tablets with-dextromethorphan as the active ingredient. Checked the label -- it said to avoid interaction with MAOIs. OK, no problem. Checked with the pharmacist to be sure -- no problem. Checked the Zoloft patient information -- no problem. He took a couple of the tablets, and seemed a little more irritable than he has been lately. So I went to the internet, and a couple of usually reliable websites said to avoid taking dextromethorphan with MAOIs [I]and SSRIs.[/I] I went into a tailspin, and called the pharmacy. A very nice pharmacist spent 20 minutes on the phone with me while she checked her (presumably more reliable) pharmacology websites & books. She found no drug interaction warnings for SSRIs & detrometorphan. Her guess was that the consumer websites incorrectly included both categories of antidepressants in the warning. I felt better, but decided to go back to plain old Ricola cough drops anyway. The moral of the story, I guess, is don't trust everything you read on the internet. Except this site, of course. :winking: Anyone else have issues combining OTC & Rx medications? [/QUOTE]
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