Roaccutane and food?

[Nmsb]

My 15 year old daughter has just started on roaccutane. I’m “trying” to get her to follow a healthy diet now on this medication. She takes the tablet & an antibiotic tablet with a bowl of cereal in the morning! But is now getting diareaha . Any suggestions on what food to take the roaccutane with to help absorption & digestion please?? Thank you. Really need this to work as have tried 12 months on 3 different antibiotics & no improvement in acne. So this is a last resort!

[Biffy1212]

Hi, this probably doesn’t help but I didn’t change my diet at all when on roaccutane. I didn’t suffer from diarrhoea but it could be the change in diet that has caused this? Roaccutane is brilliant in tackling acne, it always worked for me after about 3 weeks. It got worse for a few days when I was about a week in but then I turned a corner. I had to increase the dosage but I hope all goes to plan for your daughter. I have a teenage daughter and good luck with the diet! It’s probably a battle you don’t need to have though. As long as she eats something with the tablet, it should be fine.

[Dragon8]

Isotretinoin is very effective and your daughter shouldn’t need an antibiotic as well . It is likely this is causing the diarrhoea. Possibly try more solid food as opposed to cereal.When you say antibiotic, do you mean flucloxacillin? This can cause diarrhoea.

Foods to avoid include: chocolate, cheese, chilli, capsicum, milkshakes, oily food, salty food, deep fried food, fatty food. Basically anything that will cause inflammation in the body.

Drinking more water can help

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Best having fats in the diet as it absorbs the tablet better