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What Supplements Interact with Dicyclomine?

Dicyclomine brand names: Bentyl, Formulex, Antispas, Dibent, Dilomine, and others. Every interaction below applies to the brands too.

17 Interactions 1 Major 7 Moderate 9 Minor

Drug–supplement interaction data sourced from Natural Medicines Pro, the licensed clinical database from TRC Healthcare / Therapeutic Research, with additional analysis by the HelloPharmacist Pharmacist Team. Our sources · Editorial policy

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What is this? The interaction data in the HelloPharmacist supplement database is licensed from Natural Medicines Pro by TRC Healthcare (Therapeutic Research). HelloPharmacist pharmacists often add our own analysis and context on top of that licensed data — such as this Bottom Line summary and the notes on individual interaction pages — and any such commentary is noted as ours.

Dicyclomine (Bentyl) calms the gut cramping of irritable bowel syndrome, and people managing IBS often reach for the very products that fill this list: psyllium, glucomannan, and other bulk fibers. All 17 ingredients on file share one mechanism, changing how much of an oral dose gets absorbed, and that pattern deserves genuine care with this medication. Activated charcoal, the lone major-rated entry, is the one to understand first, because it can bind the drug in the gut and sharply reduce what reaches your bloodstream.

The seven moderate and nine minor entries are mostly gums, mucilages, and fibers that slow or blunt absorption, though a few can push things the other way and raise drug levels instead. The practical fix is timing. Take a fiber or gum-based supplement well apart from your dicyclomine dose, and check the full entries below for how far apart each one needs to be.

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Top Ingredient Interactions

Dicyclomine: Top Interactions at a Glance

The most significant Dicyclomine supplement & herbal interactions, colored by severity. Tap any ingredient to open the full report for that pair.

Showing the 12 highest-ranked of 17 interacting ingredients — plus 1,435 more checked with no known interaction. See the complete ranked list.

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The Major Interactions to Know About

The most clinically significant Dicyclomine + supplement combinations in our database, best-documented first. Open any card for the full report.

The complete list

Every Supplement Checked Against Dicyclomine

All 1,452 ingredients in our database, ranked by severity — 17 with a Dicyclomine interaction on file and 1,435 with none found. Filter by severity or search any ingredient; hover the for what each ingredient is.

Straight answers

Can You Take It With Dicyclomine?

One-line answers, one card per combination — scroll through today’s 20 and tap any card for the full report. A different set rotates in daily until every combination has had its turn.

Can you take Slippery Elm with Dicyclomine?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, slippery elm may slow the absorption and reduce serum levels of oral drugs.

Full Slippery Elm + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Guar Gum with Dicyclomine?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Guar gum might reduce the absorption of some oral drugs, potentially decreasing their effectiveness.

Full Guar Gum + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Gum Arabic with Dicyclomine?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, gum arabic can alter the absorption of oral drugs due to its fiber content.

Full Gum Arabic + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Tragacanth with Dicyclomine?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, tragacanth might alter absorption of oral drugs.

Full Tragacanth + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Thyroid Extract with Dicyclomine?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Food and medications can interfere with thyroid hormone absorption.

Full Thyroid Extract + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Agar with Dicyclomine?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Agar forms a thick gel, which may disrupt the absorption of nutrients and medications.

Full Agar + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Algin with Dicyclomine?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Theoretically, algin can alter the absorption of oral drugs.

Full Algin + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Black Psyllium with Dicyclomine?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Theoretically, psyllium might increase, decrease, or have no effect on the absorption of oral drugs.

Full Black Psyllium + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Blond Psyllium with Dicyclomine?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Theoretically, psyllium might increase, decrease, or have no effect on the absorption of oral drugs.

Full Blond Psyllium + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Carob with Dicyclomine?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Theoretically, carob might also impair the absorption of oral drugs.

Full Carob + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Karaya Gum with Dicyclomine?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Co-administration of oral drugs with bulk forming laxatives such as karaya gum may decrease, increase, or have no effect on the absorption o...

Full Karaya Gum + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Marshmallow with Dicyclomine?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Theoretically, mucilage in marshmallow might impair absorption of oral drugs.

Full Marshmallow + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Xanthan Gum with Dicyclomine?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Theoretically, xanthan gum can alter the absorption of oral drugs due to its fiber qualities.

Full Xanthan Gum + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Activated Charcoal with Dicyclomine?

Major Use real caution — this is a major-rated interaction, generally best avoided or used only under close supervision. Activated charcoal reduces systemic exposure to many drugs, including those that undergo enterohepatic recirculation, regardless of the rout...

Full Activated Charcoal + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Coffee Charcoal with Dicyclomine?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Coffee charcoal can reduce the absorption of orally administered drugs and should be separated from oral drug administration by at least two...

Full Coffee Charcoal + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take European Mandrake with Dicyclomine?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, concurrent use might increase absorption of some drugs because of inhibited gastrointestinal (GI) motility caused by European...

Full European Mandrake + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Glucomannan with Dicyclomine?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, glucomannan may decrease absorption of drugs taken orally.

Full Glucomannan + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Guar Gum with Dicyclomine?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Guar gum might reduce the absorption of some oral drugs, potentially decreasing their effectiveness.

Full Guar Gum + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Gum Arabic with Dicyclomine?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, gum arabic can alter the absorption of oral drugs due to its fiber content.

Full Gum Arabic + Dicyclomine answer

Can you take Tragacanth with Dicyclomine?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, tragacanth might alter absorption of oral drugs.

Full Tragacanth + Dicyclomine answer
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What Severity, Likelihood & Evidence Mean

Severity — How Serious It Can Be

  • Major. Clinically significant; generally best avoided, or used only under direct professional supervision.
  • Moderate. May need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separating the times you take each one.
  • Minor. Generally not clinically significant, but still worth noting and mentioning to your pharmacist.
  • No known interaction. Checked against our sources with nothing documented — not the same as proven safety.

Likelihood — How Well It’s Documented

  • Likely. Well-controlled human studies have demonstrated the likely existence of this interaction
  • Probable. Interaction has not been documented in well-controlled studies, however, the interaction has been demonstrated in some small human studies or in controlled animal studies in conjunction with multiple case reports.
  • Possible. Interaction has been documented in animal or in lab research, or the interaction has been documented in humans but is limited to case reports or conflicting clinical research exists
  • Unlikely. Interaction has been demonstrated in animal or in lab research but has been shown not to occur in humans.

Where This Data Comes From

  • Interaction records are evidence-graded and sourced from the Natural Medicines database (TRC Healthcare), the same reference used by pharmacists and hospitals.
  • Each entry links to a full report with the clinical detail, likelihood, evidence level, and citations for that exact combination.
  • Content is reviewed by licensed HelloPharmacist pharmacists — see our data sources and editorial standards.

How Does Our Interaction Checker Work?

Behind every verdict on this page is a category system. Our source database doesn’t document supplement interactions drug-by-drug — it documents them against groups of medications that behave the same way (for example, “drugs processed by the CYP3A4 liver enzyme” or “blood-thinning medications”).

So the check works in three steps: (1) Dicyclomine is classified into the pharmacology categories it belongs to, (2) every supplement interaction documented against any of those categories is inherited by Dicyclomine, and (3) each ingredient keeps its own severity, likelihood, and evidence grades from the underlying record. That’s why one supplement can carry several records for one drug — it may interact through more than one category.

Dicyclomine sits in 1 interaction category. Open any one to see what the group means:

Oral Drugs 17 ingredients

A pharmacology grouping from our source database: medications in this group share a property that certain supplements are known to interact with, so an interaction documented for the group applies to every drug in it.

17 of the supplement ingredients on this page reach Dicyclomine through this category.

About Dicyclomine

Dicyclomine is an anticholinergic medication used to relieve muscle spasms and abdominal symptoms in irritable bowel syndrome.

Generic name: Dicyclomine  ·  Brand names: Bentyl, Formulex, Antispas, Dibent, Dilomine, Or-Tyl, Di-Spaz injection, Di-Spaz.

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Pharmacist Counseling Corner

Dicyclomine & Supplements: Common Questions

What supplements interact with Dicyclomine?
Our database currently documents 17 ingredients with a known Dicyclomine interaction (1 major, 7 moderate, 9 minor). The practical move: scan the major group first, then look up the exact supplements you take rather than reading all 17. The highest-ranked right now: Activated Charcoal, Coffee Charcoal, European Mandrake.
Which Dicyclomine supplement interactions are the most serious?
The 1 major-rated combination — led by Activated Charcoal — deserve real caution: these are the ones generally best avoided, or used only with your prescriber watching. If you take any of them today, don't panic and don't stop anything abruptly — call your pharmacist first. Jump to the ranked list.
Can I take vitamins or supplements while on Dicyclomine?
Plenty of supplements coexist fine with Dicyclomine; a shorter list does not. Rather than memorizing it, check the specific ingredients on your labels — the ranked list above covers every one we've checked, and multi-ingredient products can be checked label-by-label with our scanner. Try the label scanner or the interaction checker.
Do brands like Bentyl have the same supplement interactions as Dicyclomine?
Yes — Bentyl, Formulex, Antispas, Dibent, Dilomine and other brands all contain Dicyclomine, so everything on this page applies to them equally. Interactions belong to the active drug, never to the brand on the box; the same is true of generics.
Where do these interaction ratings come from?
Every rating comes from the Natural Medicines database — the same evidence-graded reference pharmacists and hospitals use — and each interaction carries three separate grades: severity (how bad it can be), likelihood (how well it's documented in studies and case reports), and an evidence level. Our pharmacists review the content; we never let an AI decide an interaction. See how to read the ratings and our editorial policy.
What about Dicyclomine and my other medications?
This page covers Dicyclomine against supplements and herbal ingredients. Checking Dicyclomine against your other prescription or OTC medications is a different tool — our drug interaction checker covers that side. Head to the drug–drug interaction checker, or read the full Dicyclomine drug information.

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Where This Data Comes From — and Why You Can Trust It

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Every interaction verdict on this page comes from Natural Medicines Pro (TRC Healthcare / Therapeutic Research) — the same evidence-graded reference used by pharmacists and hospitals. We license this data directly; we do not scrape it, and no AI invents an interaction.

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Educational information, not medical advice. An interaction being on file does not mean it will happen to you — and absence of one is not proof of safety. Never start or stop a medication or supplement without talking to your pharmacist or doctor.