Anyone taking HIV treatment is right to ask about interactions with any other treatments.<\/p>\n
Drug reactions are complicated and this is an expert field. I always check with the interaction charts produced in collaborations Liverpool University at www.HIV-druginteractions.org<\/p>\n
Antibiotics are usually pretty safe, but it is always worth checking.<\/p>\n
Based on the information on this site:<\/p>\n
Clarithromycin levels may be reduced and efavirenz levels increased when taken together, and because the implications of this are not know, an alternative antibiotic is recommended.
\nStreptomycin is not recommended with tenofovir (because of potential for kidney complications).<\/p>\n
As long as you are not using either of these two drugs there is no problem. If you have been prescribed either of these, then a short course may still be ok, but you should contact your pharmacist first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been HIV+ for 3 years and I take Atripla (efavirenz+tenofovir+FTC) and I currently have an undetectable viral load.<\/p>\n
I haven’t had a cold in these last 3 years and always get my flu shot.<\/p>\n
My question is I just got a cold and I am taking antibiotics to treat my cold. I am in any danger of a drug interaction affecting my HIV treatment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}