Oh, I got a nice lecture from a crachety old nurse about grapefruit juice.
Nurse Cratchet was very, very concerned about this in our case because I kept asking her disturbing questions about how various adjustments in diet might effect, positively or adversely, various health issues and medication interventions. This would send her off into a near apapleptic fit over quack herbal medicines. Turns out that old folk on fixed incomes have spread the word amongst themselves that they can save money on prescription meds this way. That looks like a dire emergency to to some people. FWIW, most of them are not greedy pharma moguels, but hopelessly brainwashed clerics in the religion of 'established' medicine.
I soon learned that I wouldn't get any helpful info out of her this way. So found the old research specialist, trained in time of war by the Crown in his native India for info and reserved my discourse on diet and herbal remedies w/ nurse Cratchet for entertainment purposes.
Basically, if you hammer a large glass of grapefruit juice, it has a slightly toxic effect; too much acid or some specific protien all at once or something like that. This causes your kidneys to go into overtime specifically to address that toxicity, neglecting to eliminate other toxins, including those derived from whatever medications you may be taking.
At any rate, yeah, large quantities of grapefruit juice will likely (not definitely) multiply the effects of benzos, but it has the preverse effect of making dosing and titration a crap shoot.
The law in its majestic equality, forbids all men to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread - the rich as well as the poor
--Anatole France
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Why I Live at the PO[ This Message was edited by: Eudora on 2006-02-04 15:51 ]
