Will eggs, caffeine or water pills affect antibiotics (doxycycline)?
The answer is that they can. Some antibiotics absorb better into your body when taken with food and some absorb better when taken without food. Some antibiotics require that you not eat dairy products within two hours before or after taking them so that they will absorb into your body properly. That information comes from the drug store when you get your prescription. I have had the personal experience of my caffeine use causing the antibiotics I was taking to not work. When I get stressed out, I have the habit of drinking about 10 diet cokes per day for several days straight until I become dehydrated. I don’t know if the dehydration or the excessive caffeine caused the problem, but when I quit using caffeine the particular antibiotic I was taking suddenly became powerfully effective and cured me. This leads me to believe that the information you get with your antibiotics is what is generally true for most people. If your antibiotics are not working (aside from them not being the right