If You Take These Drugs, Don’t Eat Grapefruit

Now I love grape­fruit. And I hate to dis­cour­age any­one from eat­ing it. But if you hap­pen to be tak­ing any of the drugs below, that grape­fruit could actu­ally cause you to over­dose and in some cases die.

I’ve heard reports about this for years, but this is the first time I’ve seen a com­pre­hen­sive list.

So for the record here are the drugs:

Anti-cancer

Crizo­tinib.
Dasa­tinib.
Erlotinib.
Everolimus.
Lap­a­tinib.
Nilo­tinib.
Pazopanib.
Suni­tinib.
Van­de­tanib.
Venu­rafenib.

Anti-infective

Ery­thromycin.
Halo­fantrine.
Mar­avi­roc.
Pri­maquine.
Qui­nine.
Rilpivirine.

Anti-cholesterol

Ator­vas­tatin.
Lovas­tatin.
Sim­vas­tatin.

Car­dio­vas­cu­lar

Amio­darone.
Apix­a­ban.
Clopi­do­grel.
Dronedarone.
Eplerenone.
Felodip­ine.
Nifedip­ine.
Quini­dine.
Rivarox­a­ban.
Tica­grelor.

Cen­tral ner­vous system

Alfen­tanil (oral).
Bus­pirone.
Dex­tromethor­phan.
Fen­tanyl (oral).
Ket­a­mine (oral).
Lurasi­done.
Oxy­codone.
Pimozide.
Que­ti­ap­ine.
Tri­a­zo­lam.
Ziprasi­done.

Gas­troin­testi­nal

Dom­peri­done.
Immuno­sup­pres­sants

Cyclosporine.
Everolimus.
Sirolimus.
Tacrolimus.

Uri­nary tract

Dar­ife­nacin.
Fes­otero­dine.
Solife­nacin.
Silo­dosin.
Tam­su­losin.

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Grape­fruit juice inter­ac­tion with drugs can be deadly — Health — CBC News
More pre­scrip­tion drugs are on the mar­ket that can inter­act with grape­fruit juice with poten­tially seri­ous effects such as sud­den death, Cana­dian doc­tors warn.

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