Calcuim and daily vitamins - Can you take them together?

IsMollyReallyHungry
IsMollyReallyHungry Posts: 15,389 Member
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Does anyone know if it matter if you take your Calcuim pills with your one a day vitiamins? I had heard that this is not good and I forgot why. I had to get a 3 a day vitamin this last time so now I need to take them together but I don't want to cancel either of them out.

Thanks in advance for your repsonses.

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  • BunnyDVP
    BunnyDVP Posts: 71 Member
    According to my doctors and nutrionists the answer is NO.:frown: Anything that has iron and magnesium in it (and the multivitamin has both) will not let the calcium absorb.

    Since I have to take both (I have has gastric bypass surgery) I take my multi in the a.m. after breakfast, my calcium just before lunch and then my multivitam again after dinner.

    Hope this information was helpful to you.:flowerforyou:
  • PoeRaven
    PoeRaven Posts: 433 Member
    Agree, you should take your calcium at least an hour before or after the vitamin so the calcium will absorb better. :smile:
  • GrammiBarb
    GrammiBarb Posts: 11
    I take my Vitamin and Iron in the morning, so they won't interfer with the Calcium at bedtime.

    I was also told not to drink milk with the Iron.
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