Drug & supplement interaction

Cesium + Buprenorphine/Naloxone

Buprenorphine/Naloxone brand name: Suboxone.

No Known Interaction
The bottom line No known interaction

We found no known interaction between Cesium and Buprenorphine/Naloxone in our sources. Absence of a documented interaction is not the same as proven safety, and does not guarantee one does not exist. Do not start, stop, or change a medication or supplement based on this page; confirm with your pharmacist or doctor first. Additionally, although there is no interaction, the two are separately associated with some of the same side effects, which would make a new symptom harder to attribute to one or the other.

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Cesium and Buprenorphine/Naloxone

We checked these two against our interaction database. Here is what we found.

No Known Interaction Found

We did not find a documented interaction between Buprenorphine/Naloxone and Cesium in our sources. This does not guarantee that the combination is completely free of risk — there is often limited research on supplements and herbal products, especially around drug interactions.

If you decide to take both, the practical routine is simple: add one new thing at a time and note the date you started it. If the combination is going to disagree with you, it usually shows in the first days to a couple of weeks — and a start date turns “I’ve been feeling off” into something a pharmacist can actually work with. Do not stop a prescribed medicine on your own.

Always talk with your pharmacist or doctor before making changes to your medications or supplements, particularly if you take several medications or have an ongoing health condition.

Cesium safety at a glance

Cesium overall Avoid Cesium chloride can cause life-threatening heart rhythm problems and has no proven benefit.
Pregnancy Avoid Not safe; avoid during pregnancy due to serious toxicity risks.
Breastfeeding Avoid Not safe; avoid while breastfeeding.

Safety guidance is general; always confirm with your pharmacist or doctor for your situation.

Still wondering about combining Buprenorphine/Naloxone and Cesium? Ask Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS directly ›
How we checked

Why No Interaction Is Listed for Buprenorphine/Naloxone

Interactions in our licensed database are recorded against drug classes, not just single drug names. Buprenorphine/Naloxone is filed under 6 classifications — including narcotic drugs, cns depressants, seizure threshold lowering drugs. Cesium has documented interactions with 3 drug classes — the most serious being qt interval-prolonging drugs (major), corticosteroids (moderate) and diuretic drugs (moderate) — and none of Buprenorphine/Naloxone’s classifications are among them.

Classification data comes from our licensed Natural Medicines dataset. A medication can belong to classes beyond those recorded there, so this describes how the check was run — it is not a safety guarantee.

Keep it in perspective

Cesium Does Interact With Other Medications

Cesium has 161 major, 94 moderate known drug interactions in our database — Buprenorphine/Naloxone isn’t one of them. If you take anything else, check it against the full list below.

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What to actually watch for

No Interaction Found — But Data Suggests Cesium and Buprenorphine/Naloxone May Share Several of the Same Side Effects

This is not an interaction. Neither one changes how your body handles the other, and nothing here says they react together. What our sources do show is that each has separately been linked to the effects below — so taking both can make those effects more likely to turn up, and harder to pin on one or the other if they do.

  • Diarrhea / Nausea Additional detail

    Cesium

    “Orally, cesium can cause nausea, diarrhea, and anorexia.”

    Cesium · Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, reported in anorexia.

    1 source cited
    1. 7671. Neulieb R. Effect of oral intake of cesium chloride: a single case report. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1984;21:15-6.

    Buprenorphine/Naloxone

    Listed in the ADVERSE REACTIONS section of the FDA label for Buprenorphine/Naloxone. Read the label on DailyMed ›

Reported for Cesium but not commonly for Buprenorphine/Naloxone: an irregular heartbeat, fainting, a fast or pounding heartbeat and low potassium.

Effects for Buprenorphine/Naloxone come from the ADVERSE REACTIONS section of its FDA label; effects for Cesium come from the Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, quoted above. Wording is matched across sources by our own clinical vocabulary, so treat this as a prompt to pay attention, not a diagnosis.

Everything else you take

See Every Supplement That Interacts With Buprenorphine/Naloxone

This page covers Cesium only. If you take other supplements — a multivitamin, a sleep aid, something for joints — the Buprenorphine/Naloxone page lists 199 supplements it has a documented interaction with, worst first, each one explained.

The most serious there right now: 1,4-butanediol (major), Activated Charcoal (major), Beer (major), Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (ghb) (major) and Grapefruit (major).

By severity: 9 major · 151 moderate · 39 minor.

From our pharmacist’s overview on the Buprenorphine/Naloxone page

“If you take buprenorphine/naloxone (Suboxone), give this list real attention, because Suboxone is an opioid and the biggest danger is anything else that slows your breathing. Of the 199 supplements and herbal products on file, most either add sedation on top of the opioid effect or change how your body breaks the drug down.”

Reviewed by 2 · Jul 18, 2026

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One more smart check

Taking Cesium as Part of a Dietary Supplement Product? Check It for Interactions

We hold 51 real supplement products containing Cesium, each one broken down to its full ingredient list — and combination products often carry several ingredients besides Cesium. Even though Cesium itself has no known interaction with Buprenorphine/Naloxone, another ingredient on your label might. Find your product and we’ll check every ingredient on its label:

How much people look this up

Where Cesium and Buprenorphine/Naloxone Sit Against Everything Else

Out of every supplement and medication people look up on HelloPharmacist, here is where these two land this week — and which way each has been moving.

Supplement Cesium
Steady interest

#991 of 1,452 supplements looked up here in the last 7 days

29 days ago today
Medication Buprenorphine/Naloxone
Steady interest

#1,808 of 2,830 medications looked up here in the last 7 days

29 days ago today

Position among everything looked up on this site, not a measure of how commonly either one is used or how important it is. A supplement can climb this list because of a news story. It counts every request to the page, automated ones included, and nothing here identifies anyone.

Where does our data come from?
  • Source: the Natural Medicines (TRC Healthcare) clinical database — the evidence-graded professional reference for herb & supplement interactions.
  • Citation library: 103,510 references behind our interaction content, 65,311 of them resolved to verified PubMed/DOI sources. See every Cesium reference on this page ↓
  • Freshness: we automatically re-check this combination every week — this pair was last verified September 13, 2026. The Cesium and Buprenorphine/Naloxone records this page draws on were last updated July 10, 2026.
  • What “no known interaction” means: no documented interaction in the sources above — not a guarantee of safety. Supplements are studied far less than prescription drugs, so we say exactly what the evidence supports, and nothing more.
Data structure & sourcing designed and verified by .
Supplement

About Cesium

What is Cesium?

  • Marketed as an alternative cancer treatment ('high pH therapy')
  • Claimed to alter tumor pH
  • General 'alkaline' health claims

Cesium chloride is a mineral salt sold as an alternative cancer therapy ('high pH therapy'), but there is no reliable scientific evidence that it treats cancer or any other disease. It can cause dangerous heart rhythm problems and even death, so it should not be used. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking any supplement, and never use cesium in place of proven medical care.

Mineral element (cesium chloride salt) · Capsules, powders, liquid solutions (often as cesium chloride)

An interaction check asks whether these two react with each other — it does not ask whether Cesium is a good idea for someone in your situation. Here is what our Cesium record says about it on its own.

Cesium: dosing

There is no safe or established dose for cesium chloride, and it is not approved as a medicine. Because it can cause life-threatening harm, no dosing recommendation can be given.We strongly advise against taking cesium chloride.

From our Cesium monograph — the full record covers uses, side effects and every documented interaction.

Read the full Cesium monograph & all interactions
Keep checking

Other Drugs & Cesium

Browse every other medication we’ve checked against Cesium — both the ones with a known interaction and the ones without. Select any drug for the full detail.

161Major
94Moderate
0Minor
2,574No known interaction
Major

161 interactions

Showing 60 of 161 major interactions — see all 161 on the Cesium page.

Moderate

94 interactions

Showing 60 of 94 moderate interactions — see all 94 on the Cesium page.

No interaction 2,574 drugs checked — show the list
Evidence & sources

Cesium References

The 9 references that drive our Cesium monograph and interaction data, from the evidence-graded Natural Medicines (TRC Healthcare) database. Citations with a link open the study on PubMed or the publisher’s site.

  1. Sartori HE. Nutrients and cancer: an introduction to cesium therapy. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1984;21:7-10. PubMed
  2. Neulieb R. Effect of oral intake of cesium chloride: a single case report. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1984;21:15-6.
  3. Lyon AW, Mayhew WJ. Cesium toxicity: A case of self-treatment by alternate therapy gone awry. Ther Drug Monit 2003;25:114-6. PubMed
  4. Vyas H, Johnson K, Houlihan R, et al. Acquired long QT syndrome secondary to cesium chloride supplement. J Altern Complement Med 2006;12:1011-4. PubMed
  5. Cesium chloride and ventricular arrhythmias. Canadian Adverse Reaction Newsletter 2008;18:3-4.
  6. Pinter A, Dorian P, Newman D. Cesium-induced torsades de pointes. N Engl J Med 2002;346:383-4. PubMed
  7. O'Brien CE, Harik N, James LP, et al. Cesium-induced QT-interval prolongation in an adolescent. Pharmacotherapy 2008;28:1059-65. PubMed
  8. FDA alerts health care professionals of significant safety risks associated with cesium chloride. FDA: Human Drug Compounding. July 23,2018. Available at: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/human-drug-compounding/fda-alerts-health-care-professionals-significant-sa
  9. Public Health Alert Concerning Dietary Supplements Containing Cesium Salts. FDA Dietary Supplement Products & Ingredients. February 5, 2020. Available at: https://www.fda.gov/food/dietary-supplement-products-ingredients/public-health-alert-concerning-diet

Medication overviews come from MedlinePlus (NIH); supplement label data from the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database. Content is written and reviewed by licensed HelloPharmacist pharmacists — see our data sources and editorial standards.

Pharmacist Counseling Corner

Taking Cesium and Buprenorphine/Naloxone Together: Common Questions

Is it safe to take Cesium with Buprenorphine/Naloxone?
We do not list a known interaction between Cesium and Buprenorphine/Naloxone. That does not guarantee the combination is risk-free, so confirm with your pharmacist or doctor — especially if you take other medications or have a health condition.
Do Cesium and Buprenorphine/Naloxone have any of the same side effects?
Yes — our sources link each of them separately to 2 of the same effects. That is not an interaction: neither changes how your body handles the other. It does mean that if one of those effects turns up, it can be harder to tell which one is behind it. They are listed on this page with the source behind each.
How was the Cesium and Buprenorphine/Naloxone combination checked?
Interactions in our licensed database are recorded against drug classes. Buprenorphine/Naloxone is filed under 6 classifications, and Cesium has documented interactions with 3 drug classes — none of Buprenorphine/Naloxone's classifications are among them. A medication can belong to classes beyond those recorded in our dataset, so this describes how the check was run rather than guaranteeing safety.
Does Cesium interact with any other medications?
Yes. Cesium has 255 documented drug interactions in our database — Buprenorphine/Naloxone is simply not one of them. If you take anything else, it is worth checking each one; they are all listed on this page.
Does Buprenorphine/Naloxone interact with any supplements?
Yes. Buprenorphine/Naloxone has documented interactions with 199 supplements in our database — Cesium is not one of them. The Buprenorphine/Naloxone interaction page linked on this page lists every one, ranked by severity.

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