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The People's Guide To Deadly Drug Interactions: How To Protect Yourself From Life-Threatening Drug-Drug, Drug-Food, Drug-Vitamin Combinations (The People's Pharmacy Guides)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.7045
EAN: 9780312155100
Edition: Rev Sub
ISBN: 0312155107
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 447
Publication Date: April 15, 1997
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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Editorial Review:
Who would've thought grapefruit juice, licorice, and cheddar cheese could be so dangerous? Well, they are, when combined with certain medications. This book continues the People's Pharmacy franchise with an eye-opening guide to the unexpected, dangerous, and sometimes deadly ways foods, vitamins, minerals, herbs, and alcohol can interact with prescription and over-the-counter drugs, and how those drugs can interact with each other. Obviously, the more medications you take, the more there is to learn from this book. Still, there's something for almost everyone to worry about here.
Did You Know?Eating too much broccoli could be deadly if you also take the popluar blood thinner called Coumadin (warfarin)?Grapefruit juice, when used to wash down certain atihistamines, immune suppressors, or blood pressure drugs, can cause blood levels of these powerful drugs to soar? The result: serious side effects.Birth control pills might be rendered ineffective by the following substances: barbituates, antibiotics, anti-fungal drugs, tuberculosis drugs, certain anticonvulsants?Is Your Life In Danger?Everyone has taken more than one pill simultaneously. Yet every time you combine drugs with prescription medicines, foods, vitamins, minerals, herbs or alcohol you explose yourself to the risk of a potentially dangerous interaction.Deadly Drug Interactions Can Help You.Over 200 easy-to-understand charts with information on medications for pain relief, allergies, asthma, arthritis, heart problems, depression, diabetes, contraception, ulcers and much more.Descriptions of the symptoms of interactions.Specific concerns of women, children and older people.Vital information of Lanoxin, Cardizem, Prozac, Mevacor, Ortho-Novum, Tagamet, Coumadin, Dilatin, Cipro, Synthroid, Procardia, and scores of other commonly prescribed medicines.
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Rating:  - If you are taking medications you MUST read this book...
Perhaps one of the most enlightening books I have read this year is this one. Writen by the authors of the multi-million copy seller The People's Pharmacy, this book goes into great details about not only drug-drug reactions, but contains charts, case studies and information about what foods, vitamins and minerals can cause deadly interactions in people. Reading this book not only gave me a renewed horror for the power of the drugs our society has created (prescription AND non-prescription can ... Read More
Rating:  - Disappointed because book did not list many of my drugs.
I am Diabetic and take Insulin and was taking Rezulin, which were not even listed in book. I also take Immodium AD and Lomotil for bowel problems and these were also omitted. A drug prescribed for sleep - Visteril - was also not listed. Since I also take Prozac, Lasix and was taking Prinivil, information about these drugs was in the book and was helpful. The layout and presentation were better than most in conveying the results of the drug interactions.
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