"...all doctors should be able to diagnose and treat nutritional deficiencies."
Royal College of Physicians. Nutrition and Patients: A Doctor's Responsibility. London 2002
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Antibiotics
Minerals
The absorption of some antibiotics and thus their efficacy is reduced by the co-administration of many minerals, calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc, or calcium-rich foods such as milk.
This applies to two main families of antibiotics:
- tetracyclines – oxytetracycline, doxycycline and minocycline
- quinolones - ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin and related antibiotics.
The effectiveness of such antibiotics can be reduced markedly unless mineral preparations are taken two hours away from them in order to prevent any interaction.
