Eating grapefruit during pregnancy

You can eat grapefruit during pregnancy, but not too much, because women should pay more attention to keeping warm when pregnant. If you keep consuming these cold foods, your body will be affected by the cold. If you continue like this for a long time, you may have threatened miscarriage. Especially some women in the early stages of pregnancy should be more careful not to eat too much grapefruit.

⒈ Grapefruit cannot be taken with certain medicines. Clinical observations have found that for patients with hyperlipidemia, taking a tablet of lovastatin (also known as melipridone) with a glass of grapefruit juice is equivalent to the lipid-lowering effect of taking 12 to 15 tablets of lovastatin with a glass of water. As a result, patients may experience muscle pain and even kidney disease. Some patients taking the anti-allergy drug terfenadine

If you eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice, you may experience dizziness, palpitations, arrhythmia, etc. at the mildest, or sudden death at the worst. Other drugs that may have adverse reactions with grapefruit include: cyclosporine, caffeine, calcium channel blockers, cisapride, etc. Drinking a glass of grapefruit juice may interact with the drug for 24 hours. Therefore, patients who are taking medication, especially the elderly, should not eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice.

⒉ Women taking contraceptives should avoid eating it. A study in the United States shows that grapefruit has the most prominent effect on birth control pills. Experts say, "If a woman who takes birth control pills eats 1-2 grapefruits after sex, or takes birth control pills directly with a large glass of grapefruit juice, she may become a mother because grapefruits hinder the absorption of birth control pills by women."

⒊ Grapefruit is cold in nature. People with spleen deficiency and diarrhea will have diarrhea after eating grapefruit, so people with weak constitution and cold body should not eat too much.

⒋ Patients with hypertension should not eat grapefruit while taking medication. Experts recommend that you do not eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice while taking antihypertensive drugs, otherwise it may cause serious toxic side effects such as a sudden drop in blood pressure.

5. Grapefruit contains an unknown active substance that inhibits an enzyme in the human intestine, disrupts the normal metabolism of drugs, and significantly increases blood concentration. It affects liver detoxification, damages liver function, and may cause other adverse reactions or even poisoning.

⒍ Eating grapefruit while taking anti-allergic drugs may cause the patient to experience mild symptoms such as dizziness, palpitations, arrhythmia, ventricular fibrillation, etc., and severe cases may even lead to sudden death. Therefore, do not eat grapefruit while taking anti-allergic drugs. Other medicines that should not be taken at the same time as eating grapefruit include: calcium ion blockers and lipid-lowering drugs commonly used for coronary heart disease, cisapride commonly used for the digestive system, and antipyretic and analgesic drugs containing caffeine.