Can Garcinia Cambogia Be Taken With Epilepsy Medication?

Posted on Sat, 31 May 2014

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Sat, 31 May 2014 Answered on

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Question : Can you take garcinia cambogia shwith epilepsy medication?

Answered by Dr. Venkat Sivayogi (2 hours later)

Brief Answer:
you can.. but give some gap between two meds

Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Welcome to Healthcare Magic,

There is no clear evidence or the clinical trials data about any interactions between anti epileptics and garcinia. I do accept that these anti epileptics are having many drug to drug interactions . If I face such a scenario in my clinic , i will ask my patient to keep some gap between anti epileptics and other drugs to prevent drug interaction. So what i suggest you is - have your garcinia also ,but to give some gap atleast 2 hrs before taking it.

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regards,
DR.VENKAT

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar