Can you take ibuprofen with antibiotics?

“Can you take ibuprofen with antibiotics?”

Generally speaking, yes. The chances that you would have any kind of significant drug interaction between most antibiotics and ibuprofen are very small.

Yes you can

There is one class of antibiotics called the fluroquinolones such as ciprofloxacin or levofloxacin to name a few can potentially interact with ibuprofen. This interaction can possibly cause a lowering of the patients seizure threshold which mean that a this combination could induce a seizure especially in patients with a history of seizures. However, there appears to be no other interactions with any other antibiotics and ibuprofen when researching drug drug interactions. That said the best source for this information can be from your local pharmacist or your primary care provider.

Some antibiotics can cause internal bleeding as can ibuprofen and some antibiotics are hard on the kidneys as ibuprofen can be with people who have kidney disease. It’s best to check with your doctor or pharmacist.

Of course, most of the febrile conditions are being treated with a combination of paracetamol and ibuprofen with antibiotics to combat high fever.

Antibiotics usually make the inflammation worse, so it is better to use anti-inflammatory drugs. For example clindamycin made my gum disease a lot worse for several days and I could bear the pain only with algopyrin. NSAIDs typically don’t cross react with antibiotics.

I think Carmen is true that you risk your infection getting worse if the antibiotics does not work and you use NSAIDs, so take it only if it is necessary and never consume alcohol with them.

yeah but it’s dumb to take ibuprofen with an infection because you’re turning off your inflammatory responses which fight the infection.

Yes. But Tylenol is better. it's easier in your stomach. Ibuprofen,can upset you stomach with antibiotics.