Which Food Should Not Be Mixed with Drugs?
Viagra should not be taken with grapefruit juice. It might lead to being taken to a resuscitation department! It would seem that this juice should improve liver functioning. It provides a high dose of vitamin C. But at the same time grapefruit juice inhibits breakdown of Viagra which therefore accumulates in the body. Here comes the “overdose”!
Healthy and generally popular cranberry drink is not that harmless either.
If a woman takes oral contraceptives to prevent unplanned pregnancy, she should not take hypericum tincture - a well-known folk medicine for depressions. This herb stimulates breakdown of contraceptives in the liver. As a result comes the unplanned pregnancy.
Any medicine has side effects which “declare themselves” most vividly when an overdose takes place. The overdose can occur when the enzyme responsible for the excretion of the medicine out of the body is inhibited. And even common juice can become such an “inhibitor”.
Another unpleasant thing is that some foods can have an opposite effect - they can “excrete” the medicine out of the body too fast before it had enough time to give you any treatment. We often complain about drugs: they are fake, expensive and don’t cure. But it is quite often our own fault because we take any food without consideration.
The most dangerous things are cocktails made of food and drugs for old people and children!