Medications are needed to treat sickness and illness. Doctors recommend medications and therapy to speed up the recovery of any surgical procedure. These medications are carefully measure and studied also to make sure for its effectiveness it is also not harmful for the health.
Did you know that certain medications, making such nutritious choices may actually harm you? And that, in rare cases foods can lead to a serious illness or even death?
Chances are you already experience a food-and-drug reaction of the first place. In general, food-and-drug interaction has two categories;
PHARMACODYNAMIC EFFECT- occurs when certain food interferes with how a drug works.
PHARMAKINETIC PROCESS- occurs when the drug is absorbed and then eliminated by the body.
Pharmacodynamics can also refer to the way a good food might increase drug’s effect. Example is if you are drinking caffeine rich beverages while you’re taking asthma drug has a stimulant effect. The result is jitteriness, insomnia and racing pulse.
Grapefruit and orange juice is an example of pharmakenitic process food that contains substance that affect the liver to produce a calcium channel blockers. If you used orange juice to wash down pill, that may thwarted the healing process. They mostly destroy antibiotics in your stomach if mixed with certain drugs.
More common are the less severe interactions that you can experience but they are unlikely to recognize. But rest assures that your doctor makes these dangers abundantly clear to you before taking the medications.
