Vantas Drug Interactions

Prior to starting treatment with Vantas, tell your healthcare provider about any medications you are taking. For example, combining Vantas with certain drugs used to treat diabetes can lead to interactions, decreasing the effectiveness of the diabetes medicines. Your healthcare provider may recommend that you check your blood glucose levels more often during Vantas treatment, and may adjust the dose of your diabetes medications.

• Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, such as:

• • Acarbose (Precose^®)
  • Miglitol (Glyset^®)

• Bromocriptine (Cycloset™)
• Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors (and combination DPP-4 medications), such as:

• • Alogliptin (Nesina^®), alogliptin and metformin (Kazano^®), and alogliptin and pioglitazone (Oseni^®)
  • Linagliptin (Tradjenta™)
  • Linagliptin and metformin (Jentadueto™) 
  • Saxagliptin (Onglyza™)
  • Saxagliptin/metformin ER (Kombiglyze™ XR)
  • Sitagliptin (Januvia^®)
  • Sitagliptin and metformin (Janumet^®)
  • Sitagliptin and metformin XR (Janumet^® XR)

• Glitazones and glitazone combination medications, such as:

• • Pioglitazone hydrochloride (Actos^®)
  • Pioglitazone and glimepiride (Duetact^®)
  • Pioglitazone and metformin (Actoplus Met^®)
  • Pioglitazone and metformin XR (Actoplus Met^® XR)
  • Rosiglitazone (Avandia^®)
  • Rosiglitazone and glimepiride (Avandaryl^®)
  • Rosiglitazone and metformin (Avandamet^®)

• Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists, such as:

• • Exenatide (Byetta^®)
  • Liraglutide (Victoza^®)

• Insulin of any type 
• Meglitinides, such as:

• • Nateglinide (Starlix^®)
  • Repaglinide (Prandin^®)

• Metformin (Glucophage^®, Glucophage XR^®, Fortamet^®, Glumetza^®, Riomet^®)
• Sulfonylureas (or sulfonylurea combination medications), such as:

• • Chlorpropamide (Diabinese^®)
  • Glimepiride (Amaryl^®)
  • Glimepiride and pioglitazone (Duetact^®)
  • Glimepiride and rosiglitazone (Avandaryl^®)
  • Glipizide (Glucotrol^®, Glucotrol XL^®)
  • Glipizide and metformin (Metaglip^®)
  • Glyburide (DiaBeta^®, Micronase^®, Glynase^®)
  • Glyburide and metformin (Glucovance^®)
  • Tolazamide (Tolinase^®)
  • Tolbutamide (Orinase^®).