访谈录 2012-12-03&12-05 葡萄柚汁影响药物疗效
时间：2018-12-11 作者：英语课 分类：访谈录2012年
英语课
A warning about health and your medication today, new proof that a staple 1 in the American kitchen’s grapefruit can trigger an overdose of popular drugs, a startling headline for millions of Americans. And ABC’s chief medical editor Doctor Richard Besser. Here’s your answers. Richard, grapefruit, grapefruit.
That’s right. That’s right.
It’s all about pills, grapefruit, a problem you don’t need to have. Grapefruit can have curable reactions with certain medications and the list of drugs that is involved has been growing. Just 5 years ago, there were only 17 drugs to worry about it, now that’s going up to 85. And take a look what drugs those are: Statins & heart drugs, sleeping pills, antibiotics 2, seizure 3 medications, anti-cancer drugs, a long list.
And it’s just eating the grapefruit or as its juice along, which is it?
It will. It is grape all, grapefruit, grapefruit is the forbidden fruit. It’s a.
Whether eat it or drink it as juice.
That’s right. It’s that a bitter emission 4 grapefruit. They cause the problem. Take a look at this. Just drink one glass of a grapefruit or eating one grapefruit is enough to have the effect and it can last for up to 24 hours. So you’d have to feed grapefruit hours before and after your pill, you still can have the problem. The chemical in grapefruit mixed drug more potent 5 by preventing your body from breaking the drug down. It basically gave you an overdose of the drug. And the effect can be horrible. It can stop your heart, it can damage your kidneys, serious problems.
So a list of the medication that we can do this.
We have that on abcnews.com. Look at the list, look at the drugs and if you have any on there, talk to your doctor and stop beating grapefruit.
OK, thank you, Richard Besser, a big warning out tonight.
1 staple
n.主要产物，常用品，主要要素，原料，订书钉，钩环；adj.主要的，重要的；vt.分类
- Tea is the staple crop here.本地产品以茶叶为大宗。
- Potatoes are the staple of their diet.土豆是他们的主要食品。
2 antibiotics
n.（用作复数）抗生素；（用作单数）抗生物质的研究；抗生素，抗菌素( antibiotic的名词复数 )
- the discovery of antibiotics in the 20th century 20世纪抗生素的发现
- The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics. 医生给我开了抗生素。
3 seizure
n.没收；占有；抵押
- The seizure of contraband is made by customs.那些走私品是被海关没收的。
- The courts ordered the seizure of all her property.法院下令查封她所有的财产。