Speaking with my doctor, the initiation of HAART at the time, I was quite surprised at the levity with which, after all, can you prescribe, it was hardly strange substances acting on the mechanisms closest replication of cells in our body ... Actually, and curiously, the drugs are of HAART, despite their explosive power, generally very safe, with safety and toxicity profiles well within what is generally accepted for less serious illnesses .
however, are drugs. And, like all drugs, can result in interactions with other drugs and substances taken for different reasons.
Therefore, those who are on HAART should check your tray of medicines, which often collects a legacy well before the commencement of antiretroviral polytherapy, to see if all the pills that are buried in the drawer compatible with the therapy.
There may be some surprises: for example, I found that while nearly all recreational drugs are compatible with the Sustiva (that bad luck, and I do not use them!), Only the cetirizine (trade names Zirtec, Circle , and Stamidix Formistin) is "really" secure silence for the nose when it goes crazy ... well, first know how some things are better.
To learn more material, please visit www.hiv-druginteractions.org , which offers several interesting tools: PDF updated monthly with the known interactions between the classes of antiretroviral drugs and the most common, a tool to dynamically generate tables of interaction between those drugs that you are interested, even small programs on your smartphone. There is also a section on drugs against influenza A (the "fever", for instance).
Well, good reading.
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