Can You Take Hawthorn Supplements With Azithromycin (Z-PACK)?

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While we have several potential drug interactions listed for Hawthorn, our drug-herbal interaction checker shows no interaction with azithromycin.

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Hawthorn is known to have potential interactions with drugs affecting blood pressure and blood coagulation, such as anticoagulant/antiplatelet drugs, beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, digoxin, nitrates, and phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors. These interactions are due to potential additive effects on blood pressure, heart rate, and coronary vasodilation, none of which are a concern with azithromycin.

Most interactions involving azithromycin relate to impaired absorption when taken with other drugs or additive side effects. For example, azithromycin has many listed drug interactions due to the potential to affect heart rhythm (prolong the 'QT interval'). Hawthorn is not known to affect the absorption of azithromycin or cause additive side effects.

Overall, although there are no specific studies on the interaction between azithromycin and hawthorn that I could find, based on their known mechanisms of action and potential side effects, a clinically significant interaction between the two is not expected.

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