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Will antibotics slow down the process for other drugs to leave your system?

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Dr. Muaiad Kittaneh answered

Specializes in Addiction Medicine

Possible: It all depends on how these drugs are metabolized. Drugs that are carried and metabolized by the same proteins can slow the clearance of each others. Certain drugs can compete at the same enzyme in the liver making the clearance faster or slower. We call this drug-drug interaction.

Answered 4/4/2015

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