Whom will understand diet or doctors.. Day ago I was recommended to have grapefruit as my first drink in the morning.. Now ........JR..

Forbidden fruits: Grapefruit

Grapefruit juice fits squarely in the category of "health food," so it might surprise you to know that a new study says grapefruit can cause seriously unhealthy side effects<http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2012/11/26/grapefruit-juice-drug-interactions.html?cmp=rss>-including sudden death, hallucinations, acute kidney failure, muscle damage, respiratory failure, gastrointestinal bleeding and bone marrow suppression in people with weakened immune systems-when combined with many prescription drugs.It's no secret that grapefruit and drugs can make a bad combination-apparently, grapefruit contains an enzyme that causes the body to metabolize certain medications faster, essentially causing a prescription drug overdose when taken at the same time. But a new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal <http://www.cmaj.ca/content/early/2012/11/26/cmaj.120951>says there are now at least 43 medications known to interact with grapefuit (up from 17 in 2000) and growing, posing a particular concern for elderly patients, who are both more likely to eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice, and more likely to be on a number of prescription drugs.Dr. David Bailey of the Lawson Health Research Institute-the study's lead author-explained that the danger of combining grapefruit and drugs isn't as well known as it should be:Many of the drugs that interact with grapefruit are highly prescribed and are essential for the treatment of important or common medical conditions.Unless health care professionals are aware of the possibility that the adverse event they are seeing might have an origin in the recent addition of grapefruit to the patient's diet, it is very unlikely that they will investigate it.

In addition, the patient may not volunteer this information. Thus, we contend that there remains a lack of knowledge about this interaction in the general healthcare community.The list of drugs that interact with grapefruit is getting longer, but includes drugs taken for everything from high cholesterol and breast cancer to commonly prescribed pills like painkillers, antibiotics, anti-cough medications and even hormone replacement therapy meds. Here are a few of the drugs to watch out for, according to Dr. Bailey