Food-medicine pairings

[Dr. Funk]

News item from Reuters recently

Taking certain cholesterol-lowering drugs at the same time as grapefruit juice can increase the risk of potentially life-threatening muscle toxicity, British regulators warned on Tuesday..... the risk was greatest with Merck & Co Inc's Zocor, or simvastatin, which recently went on sale without prescription in Britain, and Pfizer Inc's Lipitor

I guess this certainly qualifies for food and medicine news alerts!

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My wife's Lipitor has that warning on it and I've seen other drugs with warnings about grapefruit juice.

[WHT]

I've had to take two doses of hydrocodone (codeine) syrup.

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Hydrocodone is the generic term for Vicodin a step below Percadan on the narcodics scale and several up from codeine. It will change how food tastes.

[Pan]

Hydrocodone is the generic term for Vicodin a step below Percadan on the narcodics scale and several up from codeine.  It will change how food tastes.

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I haven't found that my sense of taste has changed after taking a dose of Hydrocodone. Perhaps one would need to take more than the recommended dose of 1 teaspoon in 4-6 hours for it to have that effect, or perhaps it has that effect on some people and not others (as is true of lots of side and even main effects).