Drug Interactions
These chemical reactions are also known as pharmacological incompatibilities. The reactions occur when two or more drugs are mixed outside the body of the organism for the purpose of joint administration. Usually the interaction is antagonistic and it almost always affects both drugs. Examples of these types of interactions include the mixing of penicillins and aminoglycosides in the same serum bottle, which causes the formation of an insoluble precipitate, or the mixing of ciprofloxacin with furosemide. The interaction of some drugs with the transport medium can also be included here. This means that certain drugs cannot be administered in plastic bottles because they bind with the bottle’s walls, reducing the drug’s concentration in solution.
Many authors do not consider them to be interactions in the strictest sense of the word. An example is the database of the General Council of Official Pharmacists Colleges of Spain (Consejo General de Colegios Oficiales de Farmacéuticos de España), that does not include them among the 90,000 registered interactions.
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