Grapefruit and more drugs are "rival"

GongLiLi Affiliated to the capital university of medical sciences, Beijing chaoyang hospital

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        Autumn comes as grapefruit, citrus, during the festival a lot of people will drink grapefruit tea and orange juice. However, if you are taking certain medications, want to and the best fruit.

        Grapefruit in the active ingredient can inhibit liver medicine enzyme activity, and many drugs will need after hepatic drug metabolic enzyme finally out of the body. If this kind of drugs at the same time eat grapefruit, drugs cannot be metabolism and accumulation in the body, may cause efficacy too, influence the treatment, can appear even adverse reactions.

        Lipid-lowering drugs: if taking atorvastatin, lovastatin, during the simvastatin and other lipid-lowering eat grapefruit, in patients with muscle pain, will increase the possibility of rhabdomyolysis in severe acute renal failure may also occur.

        Antihypertensives: as the grapefruit has antihypertensive effect, and it also makes higher blood concentrations of blood pressure medication, taking nifedipine, nim horizon and verapamil blood pressure medication during eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice, like a drug overdose, blood pressure, light cause dizziness, flustered, fatigue, or induce angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, or stroke.

        Calm sleeping pills: grapefruit will increase diazepam (stability), midazolam drugs such as cause the possibility of dizziness and drowsiness, high-altitude workers and drivers pay particular attention to during the medication.

        Birth control pills: grapefruit can hinder the absorption of women on the pill. Women taking the pill if eating pomelo after sex, can lead to contraceptive failure.

        Antiallergic: grapefruit may induce allergy drug adverse reactions such as that, cause the symptom such as dizziness, palpitation, arrhythmia.

        Immunosuppressant: grapefruit can make ring spore element such as higher blood concentrations of immunosuppressant, increase liver and kidney toxicity. If this kind of medicine with grapefruit fruit to eat for a long time, there is a risk of inducing tumor.

        To be on the safe side, before taking the medicine within 3 days and six hours after taking the drug had better avoid to eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice, also had better not to eat citrus fruits, etc. Otherwise you should consult a doctor after adjusting dosage, or switch to other drugs in accordance with the doctor's advice.

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