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Meds, Mind, Body & Benefits => Questions About Treatment & Side Effects => Topic started by: LordBerners on September 27, 2013, 05:32:28 pm

Title: Kaletra - meal size for absorption
Post by: LordBerners on September 27, 2013, 05:32:28 pm

My twice daily doses of Kaletra are supposed to be taken with a meal.  Dose one I take with lunch so no problem there, but the other one is with my midnight snack (I don't like to do breakfast/dinner dose times as I often sleep very late on days off).

I'm trying to eat a bit lighter and healthier, so I'm switching to a midnight snack of say ten ounces of unsweetened full-fat yogurt and some cashews or pistachios (say a quarter cup).  Is this enough of a 'meal' to allow for a desirable absorption of the Kaletra?

Title: Re: Kaletra - meal size for absorption
Post by: newt on September 27, 2013, 06:39:08 pm

The new hard tablets do not need food, strictly speaking. It may help settle the stomach though (cos of the ritonavir).

- matt

Title: Re: Kaletra - meal size for absorption
Post by: LordBerners on September 29, 2013, 02:29:03 pm

Thanks newt, that's news to me!  Great news really, I'd been placing a lot of importance on the absorption issue.