Drug interactions with diuretics.

Interactions between diuretics and other substances may have beneficial or adverse consequences. Co-prescription of diuretics with antihypertensive agents, potassium, magnesium or acid salts, probenecid, quinidine, anticoagulants, lithium, cardiac glycosides or other diuretics can result in both beneficial and adverse interactions. Laxatives, oral antidiabetic agents, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, adenylate cyclase activators, mineralocorticoids, hypolipidaemic agents, neuromuscular blockers, chloral hydrate, carbenoxolone, drugs likely to produce the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone and some antibiotics may be involved in adverse interactions with diuretics.