Antibiotics decrease the efficacy of hormonal contraceptives.

This isn’t true for MOST antibiotics.

You may be surprised by this...since drug interaction alerts pop-up when oral contraceptives are combined with penicillin or tetracycline antibiotics.

The theory behind the interaction is that antibiotics interfere with estrogen absorption by killing gut bacteria.

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