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Name: craig a aiken
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Question:
Why do you sometimes have to eat food or drink milk with pills? Is it because of a chemical reaction with HCl in your stomach or what?

Thank you


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Your stomach responds to the presence of food by getting the metabolism going. So if there's a medication mixed in with the food, it goes into your system faster, I would imagine. Some drugs will also be irritating to the stomach if in there alone so food and/or milk helps this out. I'm not a doctor or pharmacist so these are just guesses.

-Joe Schultz


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