About Cigarette 2

About Cigarette 2

Cigarette also can increase some of the effect of the medication since the chemical substance which react to the medication.

• Warfarin

Cigarette can increase the efficacy of the warfarin. Symptom of overdosage can happen if warfarin take together with cigarette. Internal bleeding, uncontrolled bleeding and gastrointestinal bleeding might occurred.

Brand name Of This Medication : Marevan , Coumadin

• OCP (Oral Contraceptive Pill)

Research showed that cigarette user who smoked for > 15 cigarettes per day when taking OCP together , is 50% more chances to develop stroke and angina (side effect of OCP)

• Insulin Therapy

Cigarette user advised not to smoke pre and post 2 hour when injecting insulin since cigarette can decrease 10% of absorption of insulin and efficacy relatively drop to 10%.

About Cigarette

About Cigarette

Although cigarette cannot consider as food, taking this can lead a big impact to some of the pharmacokinetic in our system. Now, we will discuss about the relationship between medication & cigarette.

Cigarette can decrease the efficacy of some medication. Cigarette can increase the clearance of some of the medication from our body. This will lead to ineffective of this medication when taking the cigarette. Smoker advised to take medication pre and post 2 hour taking the cigarette.

Common medication which interact with cigarette:

· Theophylline

· Antipyrine

· Lidocaine

· Propanolol

· Imipramine

· Chlorpromazine

· Acetaminophen

Food Drug Interaction

Common Medication Which Can’t Take With Food With High Sugar

Cakes, chocolate, biscuit contain high sugar which can interact with some drug as drug chelator which minimize drug absorption in the system lead to in effective of the medication.

• Acetaminophen

High sugar in the diet will lead to chelation in acetaminophen. The medication will less been absorbed by the body system. The drug concentration will below the therapeutic concentration. This will lead to ineffective for the symptomatic control. Patient who is using acetaminophen should take low sugar diet to prevent ineffective of the medication.

Brand name Of This Medication : Panadol , Tylenol

Food Drug Interaction

Common Medication Which Can’t Take With MSG (Monosodium Glutamate)

• Phenytoin
  

When MSG mixed with phenytoin , phenytoin will overabsorbed in the blood circulation. Symptom overdosage such as tired , lethargy , and heart arrhythmia might occur. Patient is advised to avoid food with excessive MSG when taking phenytoin medication as anti epileptic medication.

Brand name Of This Medication : Dilantin , Epileptin