Eating grapefruit while on citalopram can potentially increase blood levels of the medication, leading to a higher risk of side effects including irregular heartbeats or serotonin syndrome. It is best to avoid consuming grapefruit or grapefruit juice while taking citalopram.

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why can't you drink grapefruit with zocor or simvastatin:

The risk of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis is increased by high levels of statin activity in plasma. Simvastatin is metabolized by the cytochrome P450 isoform 3A4. Certain drugs which inhibit this metabolic pathway can raise the plasma levels of simvastatin and may increase the risk of myopathy. These include itraconazole, ketoconazole, and other antifungal azoles, the macrolide antibiotics erythromycin and clarithromycin, and the ketolide antibiotic telithromycin, HIV protease inhibitors, the antidepressant nefazodone, or large quantities of grapefruit juice ( > 1 quart daily).

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Grapefruit juice acts as a potentiator when it comes to xanax. In other words, when the two are mixed, the xanax will hit you harder and much quicker than it would as prescribed by your doctor. So if you were prescribed xanax as a remedy for anxiety or panic attacks, it would probably just knock you out instead, especially since xanax already has a big "drowsy" side effect to it.

Hope that helped answer your question.

I believe I was told that it would just make the Lexapro not work, which could send your body into dangerous withdrawls, if you've been on it awhile, but call your Pharmasist or doctor and make sure.

No, because cozaar is an angiotensin receptor blocker which lowers the blood pressure & grape fruit will block some enzymes in the interstine so that the medication directly can enter in to the body very fast &in the kidneys there will be loss of water &salts . it causes so many side effects .

If consumed in large enough quantities (some have said over a quart daily), grapefruit juice contains some compounds which compete for the same enzyme pathways of metabolism in the liver as do cholesterol and many other meds. Many dietitians have therefore removed grapefruit juice from hospitals .

I did a quick check of the literature and could not find any warnings about grapefruit and olmetec. However, I have read generally that grapefruit tends to make it so more of a medication get absorbed into your system than can be expected through the normal digestive process and hence the effects of the medication are strengthened which may not be a good thing. Double check with your doctor. Whatever they say should be good advice.

If you take amlodipine -- or any other kind of calcium channel blocker -- do not take them with grapefruit, grapefruit juice or grapefruit dietary supplements, because serious, possibly fatal, reactions may occur. Grapefruit inhibits your CYP34A enzyme, a protein that helps your body metabolize drugs. When your body fails to properly metabolize drugs, you may end up with more of amlodipine in your system than intended, causing an accidental overdose. Some drugs -- and some people -- react more strongly than others to the effect of grapefruit on your CYP34A enzyme.

Yes you can, it will cause more fluids to leave the body, the same as lemons and oranges

On average approximately 3-4oz. Don't refrigerate citrus before squeezing and you will get more juice.

grapefruit juice interacts with many many drugs... but usually it is only a mild interaction perhaps slightly increasing or decreasing the potency of some medications. but your pharmacist is trained to know these things he is the one to call.

Can you take exputex while on wa

yes

Dextrometorphan should not be taken with Grapefruit as you will probably get hallucinations.

Edit: If you are taking normal doses of dextrometorphan and you do not have a rare sensitivity to it (because of an enzyme in your liver, or lack thereof), then grapefruit will have no effect whatsoever. As a matter of fact the relation between eating grapefruit and the effectiveness of dextrometorphan has not been successfully demonstrated. The problem with grapefruit-drug interactions is that sulfur-compounds in grapefruit juice may affect the way many meds are metabolized in the liver. This involves many antihypertensive and cholesterol-lowering agents and should probably be avoided.

Grapefruit can increase the hypoglycemic effect of metformin. Talk to your doctor about it, you may be able to enjoy grapefruit in moderation.

The first person who answered this question is an idiot. Grapefruit juice contains CYP3A4 inhibiting compound so yes, it does interact with various drugs, xanax being one of them. 3YP3A4 is the enzyme which metabolises xanax so drinking grapefruit juice with xanax potentiates the xanax because less of the xanax gets converted into inactive metabolites. Its not dangerous to take xanax with grapefruit juice at all, it just makes the xanax a little stronger so the obvious way to counteract that is to take less xanax. Heres a list of drugs that are metabolised by CYP3A4 (and thus potentiated by grapefruit juice):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP3A4#CYP3A4_ligands

the substrates box contains the drugs metabolised by the enzyme. If you look in the inhibitors box, you'll see the compounds in grapefruit juice.

Yes you can