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I Built a Medicine Cabinet Interaction Checker That Finds Hidden Risks Between All Your Supplements and Drugs at Once

I Built a Medicine Cabinet Interaction Checker That Finds Hidden Risks Between All Your Supplements and Drugs at Once

via Dev.to WebdevBotánica Andina

The problem with checking one interaction at a time Last year I built a herb-drug interaction checker that covers 154 medicinal plants and 203 medications. It works well for quick lookups — "does St. John's Wort interact with my SSRI?" — but I kept hearing the same complaint: "I take 3 medications and 4 supplements. Checking them one pair at a time takes forever." A typical older adult in Latin America might take metformin, lisinopril, and atorvastatin while also using maca, cat's claw, and garlic supplements. That's 3 × 3 = 9 potential interactions to check manually. Some people have 15+ items in their daily routine — that's 50+ pairs. Nobody's going to sit there checking each combination. So dangerous interactions get missed. What I built The Medicine Cabinet Checker lets you enter everything you take — all your herbs, supplements, and medications — in one place. Then it checks every combination simultaneously and shows you: A risk score (green/orange/red) based on the number and sev

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