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Drug interactions with Grapefruit juice

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This is the complete list of drugs that interact with grapefruit juice from the Canadian study. Perhaps worth a bookmark...

cmaj.ca/content/suppl/2012/...

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Thanks for that, Cllcanada, very topical. Interestingly I see cyclophosphamide is one of the drugs which interacts badly with grapefruit juice. Something I certainly wasn't warned about when I was having FCR treatment.

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Myrddin

Knew about this for heart medcine - just as well I don't like grapefruit!! Thanks for posting

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Note that the CLL drugs prednisone and cyclophosphamide are on this list...

~chris

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Grapefruit juice is used in many beverages and bottled alcohol cocktails...read the contents label...

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