Food and medication
Iron and zinc and medication
Iron, zinc and other minerals can bind to some medicines in the gut. Keep supplements a few hours from your dose.
2 medicines on our checker are affected. Tap a medicine for every food and drink that matters with it.
Take care iron and zinc with these medicines
- Levothyroxine · thyroxine, synthroid, eltroxin
Iron and other minerals bind levothyroxine. Keep supplements 4 hours from your dose.
- Tetracycline antibiotics · doxycycline, lymecycline, tetracycline
Iron, zinc and magnesium bind the antibiotic. Keep supplements 2 to 3 hours from your dose.
Foods and drinks that count as iron and zinc
- Iron tablets
- Multivitamins with minerals
- Zinc supplements
- Magnesium supplements
- Pregnancy vitamins
- Spatone
- Iron-fortified cereal
Common questions
- Which medicines does iron and zinc affect?
- 2 medicines on our checker: Levothyroxine (take care), Tetracycline antibiotics (take care).
- Which foods count as iron and zinc?
- Iron tablets, Multivitamins with minerals, Zinc supplements, Magnesium supplements, Pregnancy vitamins, Spatone, Iron-fortified cereal.
General information from NHS medicine pages and drug labels, not medical advice. Always follow your prescriber, pharmacist or the leaflet with your medicine. How we check.