When submitting a specimen for a drug testing, you are required to disclose all the medication that you are currently taking or had taken in the past week or month. The reason why it is important to provide all the prescription names is that sometimes drugs interfere with each other and a test results comes up “false-positive” for something you had not taken. The detailed list of prescription or over-the-counter drugs that may influence the drug test results follows below.

Last time we spoke about Efavirenz.

Today we will talk about Ampicin.

General drug information:

Ampicin is an antibiotic that belongs in the penicillin group of medications. It is used to fight off various types of infections that were caused by bacteria, such as bladder infections, ear infections, pneumonia, E. coli, gonorrhea, salmonella infection, gastrointestinal infections and bacterial meningitis, respiratory tract infections, urinary tract infections, etc.

The uses for Ampicin are not restricted to the above mentioned infections.

Possible side effects:

Among common side effects of Ampicin is allergy to the drug itself. Hypersensitivity to penicillin derivatives can produce rash, stomatitis, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, inflammation and/or redness of the tongue, etc. This is not the full list of possible side effects, for more information please speak with your primary doctor.

This drug can cause a false-positive drug test result for opiod use. Although the chances that this will happen are very small, it is still possible. A false-positive drug test result occurs when another substance in the body (prescribed or over-the-counter medication) has a structure similar to that of one of the drugs being assayed in the screen.

If you had taken Ampicin not long before submitting for a drug testing, be sure to prepare yourself with the use of fast-acting detox products: either a detox drink or detox pills, to ensure the successful results.