Minor alert about grapefruit
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Well I may have mentioned in IRC, a significant portion of the people I tend to be around are in med-school. As such, I occasionally get weird warnings against things you wouldn't normally think of. One I got today was something odd I thought was worth sharing. Apparently you should avoid eating grapefruit or drinking anything with grapefruit juice when taking Tylenol or other medication with acetaminophen. Apparently something in the grapefruit causes a reaction with the acetaminophen. I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but it was supposed to be bad for your stomach lining I believe.
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I would have never thought of that... I know a lot of middle aged people who drink lots of grape juice and wouldn't doubt it if they take Tylenol. Hmm, hasve this been known for years? I wonder if Tylenol or other medication companies with acetaminophen should be aware of this. But it's not common that people take pills with grape juice.
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I'm not sure how long they've known about this. I'll ask about that. I get the impression that it's bad and should be avoided, but doing so once isn't going to be catastrophic or anything.
Although as aside note om tylenol/acetaminophen, don't take it with alcohol or to try and get rid of hang overs. Acetaminophen is bad for your liver in the first place and is especially bad when combined with alcohol. From my understanding a pretty big percentage of liver cancer and/or liver disease in the US is directly resulting from regular use or overdose of acetaminophen. Of course ibuprofen isn't really good for you either, but I forget what that was bad for(stomach I think). I guess it just comes down to, don't take meds you don't need and when you do then just follow the dosing instructions.
Although as aside note om tylenol/acetaminophen, don't take it with alcohol or to try and get rid of hang overs. Acetaminophen is bad for your liver in the first place and is especially bad when combined with alcohol. From my understanding a pretty big percentage of liver cancer and/or liver disease in the US is directly resulting from regular use or overdose of acetaminophen. Of course ibuprofen isn't really good for you either, but I forget what that was bad for(stomach I think). I guess it just comes down to, don't take meds you don't need and when you do then just follow the dosing instructions.
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For drug users that don't know, acetaminophen is in percocet and vicodin. Of course, it isn't all that good of an idea to mix any opiate with alcohol because it heightens the effects. One of my friends drank a pint of vodka and popped mad percocet and he was so fucked up he was pretty much gone. He's alright now, but its a bad bad bad idea.
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Ok, I asked for a bit more detail about it. Still dunno how long we've known about it but I did find out more about what it does. Well as stated above, acetaminophen screws your liver. The grapefruit apparently has something that temporarily impairs your bodies ability to filter/pee it out, so it just sticks around in your liver longer, thus allowing it to do more damage.
What I said earlier about the stomach was a misconception, the stomach thing I was thinking of was that ibuprofen is bad for your stomach lining(pretty sure at least).
What I said earlier about the stomach was a misconception, the stomach thing I was thinking of was that ibuprofen is bad for your stomach lining(pretty sure at least).
