Drug-food interactions

Result from medicines reacting with foods or beverages. Foods can interact with drugs in a variety of ways: by either slowing down or speeding up the time the medication takes to travel to the part of the body where it’s needed, or by preventing a drug from being absorbed properly. In addition, the natural and artificial chemicals in foods can render drugs useless or even dangerous.


Interaction between certain foods eaten and drugs being taken, resulting in a speeding up or slowing down of drag effects, preventing effects, adversely affecting the body’s use of food, and life-threatening conditions.


 


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