Food/ Drugs and Drugs/ Food Interactions
Food and the nutrients they contain, can interact with medications causing unwanted effects. A food/ drug interaction occurs when a food, or one of its compounds interfere with the way of a drug is used in the body. A drug/ food interaction occurs when a drug affects the use of a nutrient in the body.
How Drugs React in the body:
there are 4 stages of drug action for medication taken by mouth:
Stage 1: the drug dissolves in to a useable form in the stomach
Stage 2: the drug is absorbed to its site of action
Stage 3: the body responds to the drug and the drug performs its function
Stage 4: the drug is exerted from the body either by kidney, liver, or both
The following tables include common Food/ drug and Drug/ nutrients interactions and the proper action to take:
Food/ drug interactions:
Drug/ food interactions:
Credits: Linda B. Bobroff, Ashely Lentz, and R. Elaine Turner
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