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Between food and medicine interactive relationship may be negative on the body. Valdoa can prevent the body from absorbing the nutrients in food and take advantage of them, and vice versa, as it may prevent the food you get the intended benefits of certain medications. In this article Snde more on this interactive relationship, and how all of the food and medicine influenced each other.
Effect of food on drug and vice
There are many medications that interact with what is eaten and when eaten. There are food items affect the body make use of some medications, as it reduces absorbed. The food may delay or reduce drug absorption, that taking ingredients with each other. Therefore, some medications must be taken on an empty stomach, an hour before eating or two hours after. However, there are medications that must be taken with a full meal or rich in fat to function properly.
Of the most famous food that interacts with drugs as follows:
Grapefruit: react this fruit and juice with more than 80 drugs, they may reduce or increase the effectiveness of drug levels in the blood are at risk. For example, this fruit some statins lowering cholesterol increase the absorption of certain drugs, the most important.
Green leafy vegetables: incompatible blood clotting medicines with green leafy vegetables, including cabbage, broccoli, spinach, containing, high amounts, vitamin K, which reduces the ability of these drugs to prevent clotting.
Licorice: Licorice deplete potassium from the body, causing a significant increase in the activity of heart failure drugs, which can cause problems in a heartbeat. Licorice also cause sodium retention in the body. Also it reduces the effectiveness of antihypertensive medications for blood pressure and diuretics.
Tea and coffee: that taking supplements that contain iron or vitamin D inconsistent with tea and coffee because the caffeine found in them reduces the absorption of iron by about 80%, reduces the absorption of vitamin D or calcium. The tannin existing tea combines with iron and prevents its absorption, and iron deficiency can lead to anemia. Iron absorption with taking supplements that contain it with eggs, milk and cheese also affected.