Avoid Food-Drug Interactions - Paperback

by National Consumers League (Author), U. S. Food and Drug Administration (Author)

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