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What is the seven wonders of barbados?
lengend has it.. it is the grapefruit tree and also the jacobean mansions still alive
What is in grapefruit that makes it interact with medicines?
A daily glass of grapefruit juice or half of a grapefruit for breakfast is normally considered a healthy diet choice: that grapefruit delivers vitamin C, fiber, and potassium. However, grapefruit can be dangerous if taken along with certain of the statin class of cholesterol-lowering prescription medicines.Grapefruit and grapefruit juice interact with multiple prescription medicines, and consuming grapefruit while on these medications can be dangerous. In fact, there are many medications that interact with grapefruit, including the cholesterol-lowering statins Zocor (simvastatin), Lipitor (atorvastatin) and Pravachol (pravastatin).Which Medications Interact With Grapefruit?Grapefruit should be avoided (or minimized - best bet is to discuss with your doctor) when taking a surprisingly broad group of medicines. According to the FDA's Grapefruit Juice and Medicine May Not Mix, grapefruit can interfere with certain of the cholesterol-lowering statins as listed above, some blood-pressure medications, some antihistamines, as well as other drug classes.How Does Grapefruit Interact With Prescription Medicines?Essentially, the juice of grapefruit changes the absorption of certain drugs into the bloodstream. Katherine Zeratsky, a Mayo Clinic Nutritionist, explains, "Problems arise because chemicals in the fruit can interfere with the enzymes that break down (metabolize) the medication in your digestive system. As a result, the medication may stay in your body for too short or too long a time. A medication that's broken down too quickly won't have time to work. On the other hand, a medication that stays in the body too long can increase to potentially dangerous levels, causing serious side effects." For statins in particular, grapefruit juice increases the level of statin in the blood, to a potentially dangerous level.What If I Take My Prescription Hours After Eating Grapefruit?Though eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice hours before or after taking a prescription medicine seems a good strategy, it is not. Shiew Mei Huang, acting director of the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Clinical Pharmacology, explains, "Drinking grapefruit juice several hours before or several hours after you take your medicine may still be dangerous, so it's best to avoid or limit consuming grapefruit juice or fresh grapefruit when taking certain drugs.ConclusionFor those not on prescription medication of any sort, grapefruit and grapefruit juice are a terrific nutritional choice. But if you take any prescription medication - especially statins to lower cholesterol - you should avoid grapefruit and grapefruit juice, or at least discuss with your doctor.Did You Know?Grapefruit juice decreases the effectiveness of allergy medications like Allegra (fexofenadine) by inhibiting the absorption of the drug itself. It may be less effective with apple and orange juice as well, so the fexofenadine label states "do not take with fruit juices."
When flowers are picked are they still a plant?
No they are not still a plant. When they are picked they don't have their vitamins, food or their roots.
Do you get more water from a solar still or a plant?
from a plant
When was Still Taking Chances created?
Still Taking Chances was created on 1982-11-08.
Is grapefruit bad for dogs?
Not necessarily, its a little acidic so it may give your dog the runs but its not bad for them nor is it good for them but they can still have it!
What is a plant beginning with d?
Dandelion. Thats a flower but still a plant.
Is an immobile plant still a living thing?
Yes. An immobile plant respires and excretes (photosynthesis), even reproduces. That is why we can say that an immobile plant is still a living being.
If flowers are removed from the plant is it still living?
Certainly - the plant will still live without the flowers. It will simply be unable to reproduce.
If oranges or grapefruit have gasoline poured on them can they still be eaten?
This depends of the time the fruits were exposed to the gasoline, the amount of gasoline ( just poured over them or really soaked in gasoline ) and whether the fruits were complete or cut open. Oranges and grapefruit have a relatively thick protection layer around the consumable parts, so when the amount and duration of gasoline contact in not too extensive then the chemical shouldn't have the time to penetrate into the inner parts. So yes, oranges and grapefruit can still be eaten after ( brief ) contact with gasoline.
When you get the plant for Roxy on moshi dose it still work if you donte plant any other plants with it?
yes it does still work u know
How long in terms of hours does a person have to wait to take colcryss otherwise known as colchicine if he had eaten grapefruit?
Persons taking colchicine are advised not to consume grapefruit at all, for the duration of their treatment. The risk being that grapefruit interacts with colchicine in a way which elevates the potency of the drug, increasing serum concentration levels, potentially leading to overdosing/toxicity side-effects. The level of reaction a person experiences correlates to how much grapefruit they consume - the greater the amount of grapefruit, the bigger the reaction.Although you are thinking ahead to your next dose, it is important to point out that colchicine has a half-life (time it takes for half of it to be excreted from your system) of about 10 hours, and assuming your drug regime is twice-daily, there would still have been some colchicine in your system when you consumed the grapfruit. It is because of this that there is no "safe" time in the day to ingest grapefruit.In this instance, the safest thing is probably to wait at least four hours between consuming the grapefruit and your dose of colcincine, since by this time you should have digested most of the grapefruit. However if your dosing regime is "once daily", just move it to as late in the day as possible and gradually move it back to your usual time over the subsequent few days.
