Avoid Food-Drug Interactions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781500422288)

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 shouldcause a side effect from a medicine to get worse or bettercause a new side effectA 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

Author: National Consumers League, U. S. Food and Drug Administration
ISBN-10: 1500422282
ISBN-13: 9781500422288
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/05/2014
Pages: 36
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.07d