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Grapefruit Juice and Patient Medication: A Potentially Deadly Combination
RN.com, 10/06/2006
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Karen Siroky, RN, MSN, - When you talk with patients about their diet - specifically when you provide patient education pertaining to healthy diet choices - you may include grapefruit and grapefruit juice on the list of healthy food and beverage choices. Why not? It's high in vitamin C and lycopene, relatively low in calories, has no fat and very low sodium. But did you know that grapefruit and grapefruit juice can potentially cause serious drug-food interactions with some of the most commonly prescribed drugs
