Saturday, June 19, 2004
Oh yeah, an addendum to the grapefruit juice. While one possible side effect is that your drug doesn't get digested properly at all, the other possible effect, depending on the drug, is that too much of it remains in your bloodstream, instead of getting eliminated (the liver bone's connected to the kidney bone) and so you can have the effect of an increased dosage - more chance of side effects, or of overdosage. Since it's too much trouble to detail the exact list of which drugs grapefruit juice renders too concentrated in the bloodstream and which ones it renders partly useless, let's just keep that rule of thumb in mind - avoid grapefruit juice within 2 hours of your pills, or at all if you're taking time-release medicines.
