My doctor has me on a small dose of Valium for a little while for back pain (apparently the stuff is a good muscle relaxer).
Anyway, my bottle warns me not to eat grapefruit or drink grapefuit juice while on Valium. What’s the reason for this?
Secondly, I like to drink Fresca™, which lists “concentrated grapefruit juice” third on its list of ingredients. Is there enough grpaefruit juice in my favorite soft drink to cause the Valium/Grapefruit Juice Nastiness, whatever that might be?
Grapefruit contains a compound which inhibits the action of one of the liver’s drug metabolizing enzymes.
I don’t see any Great Debate, here. Perhaps a trip to General Questions is in order.
(And other readers will please note that this is a question about why a certain fruit interacts with a drug and whether a certain soft drink contains enough of the interactive agent. There is no question about medical advice, per se, so let’s try to just answer the questions posed.)
Here’s a previous thread on the subject.
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Hey Homie, please don’t open two threads on the same subject in different forums…
Any responses, please direct them to this thread..
This one’s closed.
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