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Old Mar 27, 2005, 11:09 PM
Lauren1214 Lauren1214 is offline
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I was researching this topic last week and I found out that there's no way around it. Grapefruit is basically forbidden with certain medications, and that's 24 hours a day! The reason, apparently, is that the interaction of a certain enzyme in the stomach and grapefruit lets too much of the medication into the bloodstream and causes poisoning of the liver and other internal organs. Which, of course, leads me to question whether it's possible to have half the medication dose consistently taken with a glass of grapefruit juice... Any physicians out there who can give feedback on the matter?

Lauren