Before taking medications, pay attention to their compatibility with your favorite foods
Some products are so-called food "saboteurs"; they are completely incompatible with certain medications.
For example, coffee, sometimes tea, and caffeinated carbonated drinks like cola — enhance the effect of theophylline (bronchodilation) and insulin, causing an overdose effect at normal doses; weaken the effect of penicillin antibiotics and erythromycin; hinder the absorption of iron from medications; weaken the effects of haloperidol and other antipsychotics.
Milk and dairy products reduce the absorption of such antibiotics as tetracyclines (metacycline, doxycycline, and others) and quinolones (ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, lomefloxacin, and others); they also affect iron preparations and the antifungal fluconazole; when combined with most antidepressants, they cause hypertensive crises.
Cottage cheese, cheese, avocado, bananas, beans, wine, caviar, chocolate, coffee, fish, liver, raisins, red plums, salami, sausage products, canned goods, soy products, spinach, tomatoes, yeast extracts — when combined with many antidepressants and cimetidine (an anti-ulcer drug) can cause hypertensive crises.
Sour fruits or juices, carbonated drinks, wine and syrups, marinades, dishes with vinegar — weaken the effect of the most popular penicillin antibiotics and erythromycin.
Smokers need to be very careful, because although cigarettes are not food products, they can significantly affect certain medications.
Today, any pharmacy and doctors draw patients' attention to the compatibility of food products with medications. In addition, special reference books on the compatibility of drugs and food products are available for purchase.