Re: Airborne for flying - R (MD)

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Hello!

With or without Gleevec the doses of vitamins can be questionned. You

can read about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_(dietary_supplement)

The list of ingredients shown there, if accurate, includes Echinacea.

Echinacea is on the list of Herbal/natural agents which may increase the

Effects of Gleevec.

Am I wrong in thinking that anything that is meant to boost your immune

system is illogic for a CML patient to take when you do not wish to

stimulate your white cells??

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:17:14 -0400, " Rockefeller "

<rrockef1@...> said:

> > Does anyone know if it's ok to take the drug called Airborne prior to

> > flying? I was diagnosed July 06 and so far PCR still shows " 0 " . However, I

> > had avoided flying as I ALWAYS picked up a bug when I would fly. Now that

> > my numbers look good, I'm going to take a flight and want to take as many

> > precautions as possible.

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> Hi Barbara,

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> I can't think of any reason with CML on Gleevec should not take Airborne

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> it contains a pretty standard set of nutritional supplement, plus you

> wouldn't be taking it for long enough to interact adversely anyway.

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> Yours,

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> R (MD)

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