Adelaide
11-27-2012, 01:50 AM
I'm sure a lot of people are aware that taking medication with grapefruit juice, or really any juice that is high in citric acid, is detrimental to the medication's action. But here is an interesting article about how it can actually be deadly to take certain medications with grapefruit juice.
More prescription drugs are on the market that can interact with grapefruit juice with potentially serious effects including sudden death, Canadian doctors warn.
David Bailey, a clinical pharmacologist at the Lawson Health Research Institute in London, Ont., discovered the interaction between grapefruit and certain medications more than 20 years ago. Since then, he said, the number of drugs with the potential to interact has jumped to more than 85.
Grapefruit juice is known to interact with some types of medications, leading to an overdose hazard.
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Many of the drugs are common, such as some cholesterol-lowering statins, antibiotics and calcium channel blockers used to treat high blood pressure. Others include agents used to fight cancer or suppress the immune system in people who have received an organ transplant.
People older than 45 buy the most grapefruit and take the most prescription drugs, making this group the most likely to face interactions, researchers said in an article published in Monday's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, titled "Grapefruit-medication interactions: forbidden fruit or avoidable consequences?"
Grapefruit Juice Interaction With Drugs Can be Deadly (http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2012/11/26/grapefruit-juice-drug-interactions.html)
More prescription drugs are on the market that can interact with grapefruit juice with potentially serious effects including sudden death, Canadian doctors warn.
David Bailey, a clinical pharmacologist at the Lawson Health Research Institute in London, Ont., discovered the interaction between grapefruit and certain medications more than 20 years ago. Since then, he said, the number of drugs with the potential to interact has jumped to more than 85.
Grapefruit juice is known to interact with some types of medications, leading to an overdose hazard.
...
Many of the drugs are common, such as some cholesterol-lowering statins, antibiotics and calcium channel blockers used to treat high blood pressure. Others include agents used to fight cancer or suppress the immune system in people who have received an organ transplant.
People older than 45 buy the most grapefruit and take the most prescription drugs, making this group the most likely to face interactions, researchers said in an article published in Monday's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, titled "Grapefruit-medication interactions: forbidden fruit or avoidable consequences?"
Grapefruit Juice Interaction With Drugs Can be Deadly (http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2012/11/26/grapefruit-juice-drug-interactions.html)