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Show Prevent drug interactions all your prescriptions, and ask your pharmacist to keep a complete record of all your prescription and non-prescription medications. Never borrow someone else's prescription medicine. Most people's medicine cabinets probably contain both prescription medications and non-prescription drugs, such as cold remedies, aspirin and antacids. Many people don't think twice about taking a couple of different medicines at the same time. But be careful -taking more than one medicine at a time can cause The drugs to interact. This may mean that one or both of the drugs fail to work, and it also can lead to complications even serious ones. Your physician needs to know all the medications you're taking-including taking-including prescriptions from other physicians and non-prescription medications you may have purchased purchas-ed on your ownbefore he or she can prescribe a new one. To prevent drug interactions, you should: Read all labels and package inserts. in-serts. Make a list of all your medications medica-tions and use it every time you visit any doctor or pharmacist Go to the same pharmacy for |