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Possible Interaction: Caffeine and Mexiletine

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Caffeine

Research Papers that Mention the Interaction

Conversely, mexiletine is known to alter the disposition of other drugs, such as caffeine and theophylline.
Clinical pharmacokinetics  •  1999  |  View Paper
Smoking enhances caffeine clearance in both healthy volunteers and patients with severe hepatic disorders, whereas co-medication with mexiletine strongly inhibits caffeine elimination.
Archives of Toxicology  •  2004  |  View Paper
In an acute experiment in healthy volunteers and in patients under long-term treatment for cardiac arrhythmias, mexiletine inhibits caffeine elimination by about 50%.
Some side effects of mexiletine may possibly at least partially be attributable to a retention of caffeine.
Pharmacology & therapeutics  •  1987  |  View Paper