Interaction between the food and drugs have a high effect on the success of treatment patients and on the side effects of drugs . the interaction not in all cases is bad but sometimes can improve the absorption and decrease the side effect. grapefruits interaction has received very high attention recently. Consequently, the presence of food in the digestive tract may reduce absorption of a drug. Often, such interactions can be avoided by taking the drug 1 hour before or 2 hours after eating. Like drugs, foods are not tested as comprehensively so they may interact with prescription or over the-counter drugs. therefor it is advisable for patients to follow the doctor and specialists’ guidelines to acquire greatest advantages with least food tranquilize cooperation.

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Food-Drug Interactions
Abstract :
Interaction between the food and drugs have a high effect on the success of treatment patients
and on the side effects of drugs . the interaction not in all cases is bad but sometimes can
improve the absorption and decrease the side effect. grapefruits interaction has received very
high attention recently. Consequently, the presence of food in the digestive tract may reduce
absorption of a drug. Often, such interactions can be avoided by taking the drug 1 hour before or
2 hours after eating. Like drugs, foods are not tested as comprehensively so they may interact
with prescription or over the-counter drugs. therefor it is advisable for patients to follow the
doctor and specialists’ guidelines to acquire greatest advantages with least food tranquilize
cooperation.
Introduction:
Medications can treat and fix numerous medical issues. Be that as it may, they should be taken
appropriately to guarantee that they are sheltered and powerful. Drugs ought to be amazingly
explicit in their impacts, have the equivalent unsurprising impact for all patients, never be
influenced by associative food or different prescriptions, show straight power, be absolutely non-
poisonous in any dose and require just a solitary portion to influence a perpetual fix. Be that as it
may, this perfect medication is still to be discovered.1
Numerous drugs have incredible fixings that collaborate with the human body in various
manners. Diet and way of life can at times significantly affect drugs. A medication association is
a circumstance in which a substance influences the movement of a medication, for example the
impacts are expanded or diminished, or they produce another impact that not one or the other
delivers all alone. Normally, communications between drugs come to mind (tranquilize sedate
cooperation). Be that as it may, associations may likewise exist among medications and
nourishments (sedate food collaborations), just as medications and herbs (sedate herb
collaborations).
These may happen out of coincidental abuse or because of absence of information about the
dynamic fixings associated with the pertinent substances. Associations among food and
medications may coincidentally lessen or increment the medication impact. Some normally
utilized herbs, organic products just as liquor may cause disappointment of the treatment up a
point of two genuine changes of the patient's wellbeing.
The greater part of clinically applicable food-tranquilize cooperation are brought about by food
initiated changes in the bio accessibility of the medication. Significant reactions of some eating
regimen (food) on drugs incorporate modification in ingestion by greasy, high protein and
reasonable diets. 2

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Bio accessibility is a significant pharmacokinetic parameter which is connected with the clinical
impact of most medications. Be that as it may, in request to assess the clinical pertinence of a
food-sedate cooperation the effect of food consumption on the clinical impact of the medication
needs to be evaluated too.
The most significant collaborations are those related with a high danger of treatment
disappointment emerging from an essentially decreased bioavailability in the fed state. Such
collaborations are as often as possible brought about by chelation with parts in food. What's
more, the physiological reaction to food consumption, specifically, gastric corrosive discharge,
may diminish or expand the bioavailability of certain drugs.
Medication cooperation can modify the pharmacokinetics and additionally pharmacodynamics
of a medication. The pharmacodynamics cooperation might be added substance, synergistic, or
hostile effects of a medication.
* FOOD and DRUG interaction mechanisms5
:
Most medication and food connection happen through three systems: decreased rate or degree of
assimilation, expanded rate or degree of ingestion, or through compound/pharmacologic impacts.
The gastrointestinal retention of medications might be influenced by the simultaneous utilization
of other operators that, have a huge surface zone whereupon the medication can be absorbed, tie
or chelate, adjust gastric pH, modify gastrointestinal motility, or influence transport proteins, for
example, P-glycoprotein. A decrease just in retention pace of a medication is only occasionally
clinically significant, while a decrease in the degree of assimilation will be clinically significant
on the off chance that it brings about sub remedial serum levels.
Factors, for example, vague authoritative, atypical energy, poor deserter dissolvability, and
shifting proportions of adornment proteins may change the dynamic conduct of a catalyst and in
this way perplex the extrapolation of in vitro information to the human situation.
Coenzyme Q-10 (CoQ10) is broadly devoured by people as a food supplement on account of its
acknowledgment by general society as an significant supplement in supporting human wellbeing.
It meddles with intestinal eff transporter P-glycoprotein (P-gp) and as result food-sedate
associations arise.
The communication of normal items and medications is a typical shrouded issue experienced in
clinical practice. The cooperation between normal items and medications depend on the
equivalent pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics standards as medication tranquilize
associations.

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MAIN sources of food interactions:
Alcohol3
The two primary sorts of communications, which can happen following simultaneous liquor and
medication ingestion, are (I) CNS gloom and (ii) the flushing reaction.
The impacts of medications that have CNS depressant movement are upgraded by utilization of
liquor, along these lines impeding driving capacity and different aptitudes. This connection
includes medications, for example, amphetamines, analgesics, enemies of epileptics,
antihistamines, enemies of psychotics, craving suppressants, benzodiazepines, isoniazid, lithium,
maproteline, metoclopramide, mianserin, particular serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and
tricyclic antidepressants.
The flushing response otherwise called a disulfiram response happens between liquor what's
more, a few medications, synthetic concoctions and certain organisms, and albeit unsavory and
perhaps terrifying it is infrequently dangerous. This response is normal with disulfiram since
it obstructs the digestion of liquor and prompts a collection of acetaldehyde in the circulatory
system bringing about flushing, totality of the face and neck, tachycardia, shortness of breath,
happiness, hypo strain, sickness and vomiting. The response can happen with 10 minutes of
liquor ingestion what's more, may last a few hours. Drugs detailed to incite a comparable
response incorporate azole antifungals, cephalosporins, furazolidone, griseofulvin, metronidazole
and topical tacrolimus and pimecrolimus.
Liquor ought to likewise be maintained a strategic distance from inpatients on simultaneous
hepatotoxic drugs, for example, paracetamol, methotrexate, sulfonamides, and phenytoin.
Grapefruit and grapefruit juice9
Grapefruit and grapefruit juice modify the pharmacokinetics of a few medications for example,
statins, calcium channel blockers, anti-toxins and others. This was, as regularly is the situation,
found coincidentally in a study examining liquor medicate associations where grapefruit juice
was used to cover the flavor of the liquor being studied. The significant component in the
acceptance of grapefruit-sedate collaborations is by all accounts the capacity of grapefruit to
repress intestinal CYP3A4, accordingly decreasing 'clench hand pass' digestion leaving a higher
centralization of medication.
Table1 :Interactions with grapefruit and grapefruit products10
DRUGS Effect Advice to patients
Amiodarone Increased peak serum level by
84%
and increased AUC of
amiodarone
by 50%.
It is prudent to suggest
to patients that they avoid
grapefruit juice.

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Reduced effect of amiodarone on
the PR and QTc intervals.
Calcium Channel blocker The signifiant increase in the
bioavailability of felodipine may
alter their haemodynamic effects.
The bioavailability of nifedipine
and nimodipine is also increased
without altering the
haemodynamic
effect. The bioavailability of
amlodipine
diltiazem and verapamil is only
minimally affected although with
verapamil some ECG changes
were seen.
The manufacturers of these
products contraindicate the
intake of grapefruit and
its products, although this
interaction is most
signifiant in patients
receiving felodipine.
Carbamazepine Possible carbamazepine toxicity
Cyclosporine Trough and peak serum levels
and
bioavailability of cyclosporin is
increased.
Concurrent use is
contraindicated.
Pimozide Raised pimozide levels may lead
to potentially fataltorsades de
pointes
arrhythmias.
Concurrent use is
contraindicated.
Vardenafil Grapefruit juice can increase the
area
under curve (AUC) of sildenafi
by 23%.
Although this is unlikely to be
clinically
signifiant this combination is best
avoided because concurrent use
results
in an increased variability in
sildenafi
pharmacokinetics. Products
within the
same class are likely to interact
similarly.
Avoid concurrent use of
grapefruit and grapefruit
juice.
Simvastatin Plasma levels of lovastatin and
simvastatin Even small quantities
of
Lovastatin can increase by upto
12-fold and 9-fold grapefruit and
its products
respectively if given with
grapefruit juice, can cause a
signifiation
increasing the risk of muscle
damage and interaction and thus
Even small quantities of
grapefruit and its products
can cause a signifiation
interaction and thus
concomitant use should
be avoided.

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possible development of
rhabdomyolysis
In the UK is that patients taking warfarin should restrain or stay away from totally drinking
cranberry juice. This measure was taken following reports that the anticoagulant impacts of
warfarin were expanded in patients drinking cranberry juice. One patient had an extremely
stamped increment and kicked the bucket from a discharge while a further patient had a decrease
in his INR (International Standardized Ratio).11
Milk and dairy items 6
The retention of most antibiotic medications is especially decreased by milk and other dairy
items. Decrease is accounted for at up to 65%.5 Doxycycline and minocycline are less
influenced by this nutrition type albeit a diminished assimilation of 25-30% is accounted for.
Dairy items likewise diminish the bioavailability of ciprofloxacin and norflxacin. As a outcome,
it is regular to suggest that antibiotic medications and quinolones are taken one hour before
food or 2 hours after food to maintain a strategic distance from a cooperation with all types of
dairy calcium.
On account of strontium, the maker comments that food, milk and dairy items lessen the
bioavailability of strontium by 60 to 70% when thought about to bioavailability following
organization 3 hours after a dinner. Thus suggestions express that strontium ought to be taken in
any event 2 hours in the wake of eating.
Caffeine 7
Caffeine is a methyl xanthine subsidiary that is contained in tea, espresso, chocolate,
furthermore, drinks and in compound pain relieving arrangements. Caffeine is a demonstrated
ergogenic help, expanding athletic execution, perseverance, and mental chronometry even at
exceptionally low doses. As an outcome of this almost certainly, caffeine-containing items will
diminish the viability of hypnotics and increment the danger of sleep deprivation. Patients on
antiarrhythmic ought to likewise maintain a strategic distance from extreme caffeine due to the
danger of tachycardia.
Theophylline, which is artificially related to caffeine and authorized for the prophylaxis what's
more, treatment of reversible bronchospasm related with asthma and interminable obstructive
aspiratory infection, is a xanthine derivative. In this way the simultaneous utilization of other
xanthine-containing items is contraindicated. With high portions caffeine additionally decreased
the seizure edge and created a significant decrease in the anticonvulsant impacts of
carbamazepine, phenobarbitone, phenytoin, what’s more, valproate in mice. This communication
was pharmacodynamics in nature since caffeine didn't influence the plasma fixations of these
enemies of epileptics. If there should arise an occurrence of fresher antiepileptic, both intense

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and interminable caffeine diminished the defensive potential of gabapentin and topiramate
however not that of lamotrigine and tiagabine.
In any case of this anyway none of the assembling organizations exhort against the utilization of
such items. It is fitting to abstain from caffeine containing items with other energizer items, for
example, ginseng, guarana, pseudoephedrine and ephedra (accessible in some thinning
arrangements). Fatalities have been accounted for with accompanying ephedra and caffeine use.
Protein8
Protein content in the eating routine may cause changes in the reaction of Parkinsonism patients
being treated with levodopa. This is believed to be because of a decrease in the viability of
levodopa optional to the activity of the amino corrosive methionine and a decrease in the blood
levels of levodopa because of the amino corrosive tryptophan.
Spreading out the admission of proteins and confining every day recompense of protein to
088mg/kg body weight is accounted for to diminish this connection.
Tyramine – rich nourishments12
Maybe the most dreaded food-medicate collaboration is that between monoamine oxidase
inhibitors (MAOIs) and the amino corrosive tyramine. Tyramine is in a roundabout way
sympathomimetic and when its digestion is stifled, all things considered by MAOIs, it can cause
a huge arrival of nor-epinephrine, bringing about extraordinarily expanded blood pressure, heart
arrhythmias, hyperthermia what's more, cerebral drain. Fatalities have been accounted for. As
meager as 6mg of tyramine can raise the pulse and 10 to 25mg of tyramine would be relied upon
to cause a genuine hypertensive response. Tyramine is found in nourishments, for example,
cheeses, salami, frankfurters, smoked meats, yeast removes, salted nourishments, chocolate and
beverages, for example, lagers and wine. Since the tyramine levels change so much it is difficult
to figure the measure of tyramine present in any food and drinks.
A milder type of this response has too been seen with moclobemide, selegiline furthermore, huge
amounts of tyramine rich nourishments
Others 13
The impacts of warfarin can be threatened by nutrient K, which is found in enormous sums in
green vegetables such as spinach, broccoli, cabbage and green tea. Patients ought to be
encouraged to maintain a strategic distance from emotional dietary modifications. Care ought to
likewise be given to patients beginning new nutrient supplements. Different nourishments, for
example, garlic, mango, avocado, soybean items and herbs are known to collaborate with
warfarin also, patients ought to be alluded to their anticoagulant book for more data.
Medicines take with food14
On the other hand some medicines should be taken after meals
since their bioavailability is enhanced by food.
tabel2 Before food, with food or after food?3

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Recommendation Drugs Reason
Take with a high fat meals • Albendazole
• Griseofulvin
Increased absorption
With food • Acitretin
• Carbamazepine
• Fenofiate
• Isotretinoin
• Itraconazole capsules
• Ketoconazole
• Labetalol
• Lopinavir
• Mebendazole
• Tamsulosin
• Tenofovir
• NSAIDs + Aspirin
• Co-amoxiclav
Food enhances bioavailability
To minimize gastrointestinal
adverse effects
1 hour before food
or 2 hours after
• Azithromycin capsules
• Indinavir
• Itraconazole solution
• Lansoprazole
• Penicillins
• Quinolones
• Saquinavir
• Tetracyclines
Food reduces bioavailability
either because drugs are
acid-labile or via the
formation of complexes
with the drug
30 minutes before food • Didanosine
• Perindopril
• Rifampicin
• Alendronate
Specifically 30 minutes
before the first food
of the day
2 hours after eating • Strontium Reduced bioavailability
conclusion:
Countless medications are presented each year. Food-tranquilize connections can create negative
impacts in security and efficacy of medication treatment, too in the dietary status of the patient.
As a rule, sedate cooperation is to be evaded, due to the chance of poor or sudden results. Like
food, drugs taken by mouth must be retained through the covering of the stomach or the small
digestive system. Subsequently, the nearness of food in the stomach related tract may lessen
ingestion of a medication. Regularly, such communications can be dodged by taking the
medication 60 minutes previously or 2 hours subsequent to eating. Like medications,
nourishments are not tried as extensively so they may associate with solution or over the-counter
medications. The creators would recommend patients to tell their PCPs and drug specialists
about their food admission and dietary supplements with the goal that connections can be
maintained a strategic distance from.

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