{"id":162,"date":"2007-08-13T13:23:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T12:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=162"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:44","slug":"does-activated-charcoal-interact-with-hiv-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/162","title":{"rendered":"Does activated charcoal interact with HIV drugs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for posting your question.<\/p>\n<p>There are no interactions between HIV drugs and activated charcoal, but if your mom wants to use this, she needs to tell her doctor first.<\/p>\n<p>The general information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugs-pro.com\/other\/activated-charcoal.html\">at this link<\/a>, cautions that activated charcoal may reduce absorption of healthy nutrients and vitamins. It is sometimes used to reduce drug levels in case of an overdose, but I worry that this might also reduce the active levels of drugs that you mom needs to fight the HIV.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen any studies that say activated charcoal can safely reduce the side effects of HIV drugs.<\/p>\n<p>If you mom is having side effects, it is important that she speaks to her doctor about this, so that an alternative HIV drug can be prescribed, if this is important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom lives in Zimbabwe and she is HIV positive.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently on this medication:   lamivudine (3TC) 150mg,   stavudine (d4T) 30mg  and nevirapine 200mg, which she takes as a single tablet twice a day.<\/p>\n<p>She would like to know if taking activated charcoal as a detox agent in the afternoon will affect the medication she is on in a negative way.<\/p>\n<p>I would be very happy if you reply soon. Ihave been sending her information via email for her to read and will recommend this website as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-side-effects","category-supplements-and-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}