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DrugBank

Bioinformatics and cheminformatics database from the University of Alberta

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Nov 20, 2025
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What drug interactions increase the risk of serious ivermectin side effects in adults?

Drug information sources and health agencies report that ivermectin can interact with many medicines and substances — notably blood thinners, some cholesterol‑lowering drugs, antivirals, alcohol, and ...

Nov 15, 2025
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What are the risks of combining ivermectin with statin medications?

Available sources report theoretical and case‑report concerns when ivermectin is combined with drugs that affect CYP3A4 and P‑glycoprotein — a group that can include some statins — potentially increas...

Nov 26, 2025
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What medications commonly interact with moringa and how serious are those interactions?

Available reporting and small studies identify three medication categories most commonly flagged as interacting with moringa: thyroid replacement (levothyroxine), antidiabetics, and cardiovascular dru...

Dec 11, 2025

How does methylene blue interact with common medications and prescription drugs?

Methylene blue is a potent monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) inhibitor that can cause potentially fatal serotonin syndrome when combined with many serotonergic medications (SSRIs, SNRIs, TCAs, certain opioi...

Dec 4, 2025

Are adverse effects more common with repeated low-dose versus single high-dose ivermectin regimens?

Available clinical references show ivermectin is usually given as a single weight‑based oral dose for most human parasitic indications and is “generally well tolerated” at recommended doses; repeat do...

Dec 4, 2025

What are the known side effects of prolonged ivermectin treatment?

Prolonged or high‑dose ivermectin exposure is linked in clinical reports and reviews to neurological harms — including confusion, ataxia, seizures, and decreased consciousness — as well as gastrointes...

Nov 22, 2025

DMSO

DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) is a widely used industrial solvent and cryoprotectant that is also an FDA‑approved prescription treatment only for bladder inflammation (interstitial cystitis) via intravesi...

Nov 21, 2025

What are common side effects, contraindications, and drug interactions for therapeutic ivermectin use?

Therapeutic ivermectin—approved in humans for parasitic infections—commonly causes gastrointestinal, neurologic, and dermatologic side effects such as nausea, diarrhea, dizziness, headache, and rash ....

Dec 15, 2025

How does ivermectin compare to other antiparasitic drugs in terms of side effects?

Ivermectin’s approved, routine side effects are generally mild — itching, diarrhea, headache, dizziness and fatigue are commonly reported — but rare serious neurologic events (confusion, ataxia, seizu...

Nov 25, 2025

What are the contraindications for ivermectin use with other prescription medications?

Ivermectin can interact with many prescription drugs — drug-interaction checkers list roughly 100+ interacting medicines and health authorities warn specifically about blood thinners — and some intera...

Dec 16, 2025

Are there clinical guidelines or safety limits for off-label high-dose ivermectin use?

There are no universally agreed clinical guidelines that endorse off‑label high‑dose ivermectin for viral illnesses; major U.S. guidance notes that antiviral concentrations seen in vitro would require...

Dec 10, 2025

Are there any FDA warnings or contraindications for ivermectin in humans?

The FDA has not approved or authorized ivermectin for prevention or treatment of COVID‑19 in humans and explicitly warned people not to use veterinary formulations or high doses; overdoses can cause n...

Nov 24, 2025

Which common prescription drugs interact with L-glutamine and how serious are those interactions?

Available reporting shows that mainstream drug references generally list few or no established drug–drug interactions for prescription L‑glutamine (Endari); WebMD and RxList state “no known interactio...

Jan 6, 2026

What published clinical data exist for any drug named gelatide, and where can those studies be accessed?

A targeted review of the supplied reporting finds no published clinical data for any drug or investigational product explicitly named “gelatide” in the provided sources; instead the literature is rich...

Dec 9, 2025

Hydrogen infused water interacting with prescription drugs

Available reporting finds no strong clinical evidence that hydrogen-infused (molecular hydrogen) water causes widespread, dangerous interactions with prescription drugs, and several reviews and vendor...

Dec 6, 2025

Has the FDA issued any approvals, clearances, or warnings about gelatide since 2020?

No FDA action specifically named “gelatide” appears in the provided material since 2020; the sources document FDA policy and listings about gelatin and related products — including GRAS status, export...

Jan 28, 2026

Can weight-loss gelatin supplements interact with prescription medications?

Gelatin itself — the protein derived from animal collagen — has no well-documented direct drug–drug interactions listed in major databases, but public-health guidance and recent analyses caution that ...

Jan 22, 2026

What is amiodarone and how does it work compared to ivermectin?

Amiodarone is a broad-spectrum Class III antiarrhythmic used to suppress life‑threatening ventricular and certain supra by prolonging cardiac repolarization and refractoriness, and it acts on multiple...

Jan 15, 2026

No modern drugs exist for which raw patient datasets are available for independent analysis

The categorical statement “No modern drugs exist for which raw patient datasets are available for independent analysis” is too broad: while truly open, fully de‑identified patient‑level clinical trial...

Jan 9, 2026

Which major pharmaceutical companies have published full individual participant datasets for recent blockbuster drugs?

Public commitments to share de‑identified individual participant data (IPD) exist across the industry — notably the PhRMA/EFPIA pledge effective 1 January 2014 — but audits and reviews show that concr...