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Taking morphine with other medicines and herbal supplements

Cautions with other medicines

Some medicines and morphine can affect each other and increase the chance that you will have side effects.

Tell your doctor if you are taking any medicines:

  • to help you sleep
  • for mental health problems including depression or to reduce tension or anxiety
  • forhigh blood pressure (hypertension)
  • to help stop you feeling or being sick (nausea or vomiting)
  • to treat symptoms of anallergy
  • to control seizures or fits due to epilepsy

Taking morphine with other painkillers

It's safe to take morphine withparacetamol,ibuprofenoraspirin.

Do not take morphine with painkillers that contain codeine. You will be more likely to get side effects.

Some everyday painkillers that you can buy without prescription from pharmacies contain codeine, which is a similar medicine to morphine. Painkillers from pharmacies with codeine in includeco-codamol,Nurofen Plusand Solpadeine.

Mixing morphine with herbal remedies and supplements

It's not possible to say thatherbal remediesor supplements are safe to take with morphine.

They're not tested in the same way as pharmacy and prescription medicines. They're generally not tested for the effect they have on other medicines.

Important:Medicine safety

Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you're taking any other medicines, including herbal remedies, vitamins or supplements.

Page last reviewed: 26 January 2022
Next review due: 26 January 2025