Image via WikipediaMedications 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.
What you can do to head off the reactions?
First, talk to your doctor or pharmacist. Ask question about the proper way to take the drugs. Ask about potential reaction and when and with what you should take it. Have all yur prescription at the same pharmacy if possible. In that way, you will hae the history on file and will be more likely to pinpoint any certain reactions between drugs. Read and follow label instructions on the prescription also.
Take with food. This usually, means the drug may upset or be irritating to the stomach, so take it with meal or just after one. This will prevent gastric reaction in the stomach.
Take it with water. Translation: Drink full glass of water. Sip is not enough to dissolve the drug. Juice or soda may cause the drug to be broken down too rapidly. Some drugs taken with soda, acidic fruits or vegetable juices, or caffeinated beverages can change the body processes so that drugs can stay in the body long or are not process efficiently.
Mostly the best thing to protect you is information.
