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Other medicines and the pill
If you are given medicines by a doctor, nurse or hospital always say you are taking the pill.
New advice (2011) is that commonly prescribed antibiotics do not affect the pill. However, if the antibiotics or the illness are causing diarrhoea and /or vomiting, the pill may not be effective -seek advice.
Some medicines such as those used to treat epilepsy, TB and HIV as well as the complementary medicine St John's Wort make the pill less effective. They are called enzyme inducers.
If you take these medicines talk to your doctor or nurse about how to take the pill or whether you will need to use another method of contraception.
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