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I know that you're not supposed to eat minerals and dairy within 2 hours of taking doxycycline.
For some reason, I always assumed that "dairy" meant milk products -- milk, cheese, yogurt, butter, sour cream, ice cream, and snack foods with cheese powder on them, etc.
But what about eggs? Do they inhibit the absorption of doxycycline, too?
Thanks in advance.
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eggs are INCLUDE in dairy ....
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Geet, I'm guessing it's just "lazy labeling" -- probably the sticker they're putting on your prescription bottle for "take with food" just happens to include milk, which may be okay for other drugs, but not for doxycycline. Maybe you should notify your pharmacist?
As I mentioned, I'd always assumed the dairy warning on doxycycline was referring to milk products, but eggs *are* in the dairy section. Why?
I mean, not to sound juvenile (although I can be very good at it ), but milk is for baby cows and egg whites are for baby chickens.
So is there something in both of them that's similar? Do eggs contain a lot of minerals? I'm sure egg shells do, but I'm not planning on eating those.
Wikipedia shows that eggs do contain Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, and Zinc, so maybe it's best not to eat with doxy?
I'm just not sure!
If any biochemistry experts could weigh in, that'd be great.
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