I'm 17 weeks pregnant.. Doctor prescribed me to take iron and Calcium tablets. Calcium tablet in the afternoon and iron tablet at night. I was drinking milk before taking iron tablet. I read it somewhere it's not good to drink milk before taking iron tablet .. Please help me

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Better to take it after food and not after milk. Milk may reduce the absorption of iron. You can take iron after your dinner ,then give a time gap of 2 hours for milk.