Avoid Food-Drug Interactions - Softcover

U.S. Food And Drug Administration; National Consumers League

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500422282 ISBN 13: 9781500422288

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

What you eat and drink can affect the way your medicines work. Use this guide to alert you to possible “food-drug interactions” and to help you learn what you can do to prevent them. In this guide, a food-drug interaction is a change in how a medicine works caused by food, caffeine, or alcohol. A food-drug interaction can: prevent a medicine from working the way it should cause a side effect from a medicine to get worse or better cause a new side effect A medicine can also change the way your body uses a food. Any of these changes can be harmful. This guide covers interactions between some common prescription and over-the counter medicines and food, caffeine, and alcohol. These interactions come from medicine labels that FDA has approved. This guide uses the generic names of medicines, never brand names.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500422282
• ISBN 13: 9781500422288
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 34