A friend is taking mitotane for cancer. She has been increasing her dosage but her levels are decreasing. She has been taking it crushed and with lactaid. Could that be causing her to not absorb the mitotane?
Can taking medications with milk affect how they are absorbed?
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- 22 Sep 2010 by lboockfor
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- 23 Sep 2010
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- lactaid, cancer, adrenal cortical carcinoma, mitotane, dosage
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suzanne66
22 Sep 2010
Milk can affect the absorption of certain medicines eg. tetracycline antibiotics.
I could find no information about milk affecting the absorption of mitotane.
Check with your pharmacist.
https://www.drugs.com/interactions-check.php?drug_list=464-0,1643-0
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Thank you so much for answering. It helps to know about that tetracycline because my son is taking that. Thaniks