grapefruit is not only delicious, but also has the effect of losing weight and slimming. It can be called the slimming champion of autumn fruits.
This is because:
- 5 grapefruit has low calories;
- After eating grapefruit, you will feel full, thereby reducing your appetite.
Although grapefruit is good, don’t eat too much. Just eat 1-2 petals a day. If it is during the medication period, you should be more careful when taking grapefruit, because some medicines cannot be taken together with grapefruit.
There was a case before that there was a 58-year-old Mr. Liu in Wuhan, Hubei who loved to eat grapefruit. One day, he suddenly felt sore and weak in his limbs, and his urine color deepened. Later, he couldn't even walk. After going to the hospital, he was diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis.
测词 lysysia is a syndrome of severe damage to muscle tissue. Patients often experience obvious myalgia, fatigue, swelling, and deepening urine color. In severe cases, it can lead to acute renal failure, arrhythmia, and even death. After inquiring, Mr. Liu suffered from hyperlipidemia and had been taking the lipid-lowering drug atorvastatin, and rhabdomyolysis syndrome is a common side effect of statins.
Some statins catabolize in the liver, and this process requires the participation of an enzyme - cytochrome P450 3A4. If the activity of this enzyme is inhibited, statins cannot be decomposed in time and may accumulate in the body. If the concentration of drugs in the body is too high, drug side effects will occur, such as liver damage, muscle damage, etc.
grapefruit (mainly grapefruit ) contains chemical substances such as naringin and furancoumarin, which will affect the catabolic of statins in the body, increase the blood drug concentration, and lead to more obvious toxic side effects of the drug. In this case, the probability of statins damage the liver function of , or causing rhabdomyolysis will greatly increase.
In addition, some antihypertensive drugs such as Felodipin cannot be eaten with grapefruit.
Studies have found that during the period of taking felodipine sustained release tablets, eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice will increase the concentration of felodipine blood drug by about 2 times. The drug is too effective, which greatly increases the risk of hypotension and and arrhythmia.
In fact, there are many types of drugs that should not be taken with grapefruit. For safety reasons, people who are taking some drugs should carefully read the drug instructions and communicate with the doctor who prescribes the medicine to clearly understand the relevant taboos of the drugs they take.
If the drug instructions remind you not to take the medicine, you should pay more attention to avoid eating together.
