TIL if you take benzodiazepines, amphetamines, SSRIs, or a variety of other drugs you absolutely cannot have grapefruit in any form

RT @dannosowitz@twitter.com

as we get into grapefruit season i wanted to remind everyone to please be careful with this delicious fruit!!!!! it is very weird and possibly dangerous!!!!! atlasobscura.com/articles/grap

🐦🔗: twitter.com/dannosowitz/status

basically grapefruit breaks down an enzyme thats responsible for limiting how much of a med gets in your bloodstream and it takes ~12 hours for your body to recover it after you eat it so if you have some of it & then take your meds you will overdose by oh say 10 times

nobody told me about this ever, hello? ive been on SSRIs for years now

@pup_hime Yeah I'll probably die if I ate grapefruit @.@

Four of my medications have interactions with grapefruit, the only one that doesn't is my allegra.

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