Am looking for a UK website

[Annamaria]

where you can put in any medication you are and find out what the side effects are and what drugs react with it......I tried the one suggested on here but it did not have my drug on it i think it was an american site?

[helvella Administrator]

Annamaria,

I have never found a comprehensive web site of that nature in the UK with free access. If anyone knows of one, please post!

If you want specific individual medicine details you can try the British National Formulary (requires free registration):

bnf.org

This site does document the most important and best known interactions but is somewhat limited in detail. It includes all approved medicines.

Individual Patient Information Leaflets and Summaries of Product Characteristics for some medicines are available (free, not sure about registration):

medicines.org.uk/EMC/defaul...

In general these do not give any more information than you get packed in with your medicines. But it can be interesting comparing the leaflets if the medicine is available from several suppliers.

And neither of the above includes non-medicines such as food supplements, most vitamins, etc.

That is why, when asked, I often mention drugs.com - it is at least fairly comprehensive. Using the official BAN (British approved name), USAN (United States Adopted Names) or INN (International Nonproprietary Names) of the medicine(s) - rather than the brand names.

If none of these turn up trumps how about posting here (assuming a thyroid-related medicine)? Otherwise I think you are going to have to do your own research.

All the best

Rod

[Annamaria in reply to helvella]

thank you so much for that information Rod i will take a look

<b>Updated on Aug 24 2010 8:32AM:</b> oops meant to mention its not a thyroid medication its for a fungal infection but doctor says the infection was not helped by my hypothyroidism.

[helvella Administrator in reply to helvella]

That's close enough - do post away and see if anyone knows or can find out anything.