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Does grapefruit interact with Valium?
Grapefruit does interact with Valium. You should use caution when using these together. I recommend not taking Valium within 6-8 hours of eating or drinking grapefruit. The grapefruit can interfere with the way your body metabolizes and uses Valium.
When taking diazepam simvastatin or lovastatin which type of fruit juice should be avoided?
grapefruit juice
Why do doctors tell you to stop eating grapefruit with certain medications?
The human body uses many methods to eliminate waste and foreign compounds (kidneys, liver, saliva, others). Grapefruit is eliminated by an enzyme pathway in the liver that is also a common pathway for many drugs. Grapefruit in combination with these drugs can overwhelm the livers ability to filter the compounds, leading in slower drug elimination and therefore higher than desired blood levels.Speak with your doctor or pharmacist to determine if any drugs you use interact with grapefruit.A bit more:You should not eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice while taking Diazepam (Valium).
What medications interfere with grapefruit juice?
grapefruit can interact with birth control and certain antibiotics. so if you are sexually active and into grapefruits try a different contraceptive for a week after your last grapefruit
What is in grapefruit that makes it interact with medicines?
A daily glass of grapefruit juice or half of a grapefruit for breakfast is normally considered a healthy diet choice: that grapefruit delivers vitamin C, fiber, and potassium. However, grapefruit can be dangerous if taken along with certain of the statin class of cholesterol-lowering prescription medicines.Grapefruit and grapefruit juice interact with multiple prescription medicines, and consuming grapefruit while on these medications can be dangerous. In fact, there are many medications that interact with grapefruit, including the cholesterol-lowering statins Zocor (simvastatin), Lipitor (atorvastatin) and Pravachol (pravastatin).Which Medications Interact With Grapefruit?Grapefruit should be avoided (or minimized - best bet is to discuss with your doctor) when taking a surprisingly broad group of medicines. According to the FDA's Grapefruit Juice and Medicine May Not Mix, grapefruit can interfere with certain of the cholesterol-lowering statins as listed above, some blood-pressure medications, some antihistamines, as well as other drug classes.How Does Grapefruit Interact With Prescription Medicines?Essentially, the juice of grapefruit changes the absorption of certain drugs into the bloodstream. Katherine Zeratsky, a Mayo Clinic Nutritionist, explains, "Problems arise because chemicals in the fruit can interfere with the enzymes that break down (metabolize) the medication in your digestive system. As a result, the medication may stay in your body for too short or too long a time. A medication that's broken down too quickly won't have time to work. On the other hand, a medication that stays in the body too long can increase to potentially dangerous levels, causing serious side effects." For statins in particular, grapefruit juice increases the level of statin in the blood, to a potentially dangerous level.What If I Take My Prescription Hours After Eating Grapefruit?Though eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice hours before or after taking a prescription medicine seems a good strategy, it is not. Shiew Mei Huang, acting director of the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Clinical Pharmacology, explains, "Drinking grapefruit juice several hours before or several hours after you take your medicine may still be dangerous, so it's best to avoid or limit consuming grapefruit juice or fresh grapefruit when taking certain drugs.ConclusionFor those not on prescription medication of any sort, grapefruit and grapefruit juice are a terrific nutritional choice. But if you take any prescription medication - especially statins to lower cholesterol - you should avoid grapefruit and grapefruit juice, or at least discuss with your doctor.Did You Know?Grapefruit juice decreases the effectiveness of allergy medications like Allegra (fexofenadine) by inhibiting the absorption of the drug itself. It may be less effective with apple and orange juice as well, so the fexofenadine label states "do not take with fruit juices."
Diazephan or diazepam?
diazepam ( croatian: apaurin,normabel..)
What meds does grapefruit interact with?
Dextrometorphan should not be taken with Grapefruit as you will probably get hallucinations. Edit: If you are taking normal doses of dextrometorphan and you do not have a rare sensitivity to it (because of an enzyme in your liver, or lack thereof), then grapefruit will have no effect whatsoever. As a matter of fact the relation between eating grapefruit and the effectiveness of dextrometorphan has not been successfully demonstrated. The problem with grapefruit-drug interactions is that sulfur-compounds in grapefruit juice may affect the way many meds are metabolized in the liver. This involves many antihypertensive and cholesterol-lowering agents and should probably be avoided.
Can you eat grapefruit while taking thyroid medicine?
Dunno, not a doctor, but there is a lot of info available about how calcium, iron, aluminum (indigestion tabs) and several other substances may interfere with thyroxine. There is also material on the net about the interactions with which grapefruit may be connected.
What kinds of Citrus interact with cholesterol medications?
Grapefruit is the only one that I have found....but call your pharmacist to be sure....but don't eat grapefruit or drink it's juice. It can cause the medicine to build up in your system and then you get too much and become more susceptible to serious side effects.
You took 4 5mg diazepam will be out of your system in 4 days?
Half life of diazepam is about 36 hours. At after 96 hours, you will still have the proportion of diazepam. It will be as if you have taken one tablet of diazepam at the end of 72 hours.
Were douse grapefruit come from who made grapefruit what made grapefruit when made grapefruit?
itally
How long does Diazepam stay in the Blood?
Diazepam, can be detected in the blood from 6 to 48 hours.
