Citron, fresh and delicious, refreshing aperitif, a lot of people are very loved. But to remind you that when patients with hypertension medication Do not eat grapefruit.
Patients with hypertension often taking angiotensin-converting Stethoscope enzyme inhibitors, such as captopril (Captopril), enalapril (Yuening), benazepril (Luoting new), or β-receptor block Agents such as metoprolol tartrate (times it Luck), Atenolol, or calcium channel blocker such as nifedipine sustained-release tablets (Ni Fuda, Heart of worship), nitrendipine, amlodipine ( Tongxinluo live-HI), and other antihypertensive drugs, we may have is not very clear, in taking these types of antihypertensive drugs, should not eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice, or blood pressure dropped, and so will have serious adverse reactions.
This is because grapefruit contains a biological active component (a special enzyme, CYP-3A4), the active ingredient with a lot of drugs in the intestine combination of drugs to enter the blood quickly, so that plasma concentration increased rapidly, which means Corresponding increase the volume of drugs; two can also affect liver detoxification, many drugs interfere with normal metabolism in the body, which is equivalent to enhance the drug's side effects. Therefore, taking these types of antihypertensive drugs, if at the same time to eat grapefruit, will be in a variety of toxic reactions, a lower blood pressure, dizziness flustered, burnout symptoms such as fatigue, Stethoscope which is induced angina, myocardial infarction or stroke.