{"id":4151,"date":"2016-02-02T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/candostreet.com\/blog-parents\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2016-01-31T17:15:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T22:15:50","slug":"consumer-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/consumer-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Grapefruit Juice and Your Medications May Not Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/candostreet.com\/blog-parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/thumbnail.aspx_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4176\" title=\"thumbnail.aspx\" src=\"https:\/\/candostreet.com\/blog-parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/thumbnail.aspx_1.jpg\" alt=\"grapefruit\" width=\"69\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n<h1><em><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">The Food and Drug Administration wants you to know that grapefruit juice may be a problem with some medications.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n<h1><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Ask your pharmacist or other health care professional if you can have fresh grapefruit or grapefruit juice while using your medication. If you can\u2019t, you may want to ask if you can have other juices with the medicine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the Medication Guide or patient information sheet that comes with your prescription medicine to find out if it could interact with grapefruit juice. Some may advise not to take the drug with grapefruit juice. If it\u2019s OK to have grapefruit juice, there will be no mention of it in the guide or information sheet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em><strong>Read the Drug Facts label on your non-prescription medicine, which will let you know if you shouldn\u2019t have grapefruit or other fruit juices with it.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you must avoid grapefruit juice with your medicine, check the label of bottles of fruit juice or drinks flavored with fruit juice to make sure they don\u2019t contain grapefruit juice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em><strong>Seville oranges (often used to make orange marmalade) and tangelos (a cross between tangerines and grapefruit) affect the same enzyme as grapefruit juice, so avoid these fruits as well if your medicine interacts with grapefruit juice.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-buttons\"><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"\" data-layout=\"button\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-show-count=\"false\" data-related=\"\" data-url=\"\" data-size=\"small\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\">Tweet<\/a><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-google_plus\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" ><\/div><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-linkedin\"><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"\" data-counter=\"none\"><\/script><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-pocket\"><a data-pocket-label=\"pocket\" data-pocket-count=\"none\" class=\"pocket-btn\" data-save-url=\"\" data-lang=\"en\">Pocket<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">!function(d,i){if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(\"script\");j.id=i;j.src=\"https:\/\/widgets.getpocket.com\/v1\/j\/btn.js?v=1\";var w=d.getElementById(i);d.body.appendChild(j);}}(document,\"pocket-btn-js\");<\/script><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drug Administration wants you to know that grapefruit juice may be a problem with some medications.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-buttons\"><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"\" data-layout=\"button\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-show-count=\"false\" data-related=\"\" data-url=\"\" data-size=\"small\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\">Tweet<\/a><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-google_plus\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" ><\/div><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-linkedin\"><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"\" data-counter=\"none\"><\/script><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-pocket\"><a data-pocket-label=\"pocket\" data-pocket-count=\"none\" class=\"pocket-btn\" data-save-url=\"\" data-lang=\"en\">Pocket<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">!function(d,i){if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(\"script\");j.id=i;j.src=\"https:\/\/widgets.getpocket.com\/v1\/j\/btn.js?v=1\";var w=d.getElementById(i);d.body.appendChild(j);}}(document,\"pocket-btn-js\");<\/script><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2167],"tags":[255,728,1916,1906,725,726,7,1885,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4154,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}