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Because what are you going to put on the grapefruit juice label, a list of thousands of drugs that can have interactions with it? If people don't read the leafl
by enlyth 4y ago
Because what are you going to put on the grapefruit juice label, a list of thousands of drugs that can have interactions with it? If people don't read the leaflets to their medication that's really on them.
It's surprising that people would take any medication without reading the leaflet anyway, given that grapefruit is not the only thing that can interact with them, and it's usually pretty clearly written.
- acadapter 4y agoSomething similar to cigarette package warnings, like "this food interacts with many medications, please read the leaflets carefully".
- pydry 4y agoIt's weird how many people are seemingly against this. It's simple, cheap and will probably save lives.
- is_true 4y ago
- loonster 4y agoArrogance is an unfounded sense of one's abilities. My abilities are well founded.
- tsimionescu 4y agoIt is also enirely and completely useless. You would get desensitized to the warning the second or third time you buy grapefruit, and have 0% chance to remember the ubiquitous warning when you actually get some medication that does interact. The important thing is for your doctor to be aware, and notify you. Also, grapefruit is nowhere near the only food that can have terrible interactions with certain drugs.
- pydry 4y agoDesensitization doesnt matter. Grapefruit isnt an addictive drug. I learned about grapefruit's crazy drug interactions about 2 years ago once from an online article. Ever since then Ive been careful. I was entirely ignorant about them while buying grapefruits and juice for decades.
- ThrowawayR2 4y agoWell, ours is the profession from which "RTFM" arose as jargon (admittedly not without justification) so it doesn't seem that strange.
- bastawhiz 4y agoThis was literally the argument for Prop 65 warnings
- bastawhiz 4y agoI, for one, look forward to GMO grapefruit trees that produce fruit with the warnings already printed on the peel so that the millions of people globally that get their morning grapefruit fresh can know that there are a few dozen medications the fruit might interact with.
- sp332 4y agoMost foods don't have so many interactions with drugs. It wouldn't hurt to put a reminder on the grapefruit juice to check that stack of paper that came with your prescription to see if it's on the list.
- tsimionescu 4y agoNo one reads warnings more than a handful of times in their entire life.