Foods, drinks, and supplements can interfere with some drugs.

Foods, drinks, and supplements can interfere with some drugs. 

Did you know that alcohol can make some medicines useless?
Some prescription and over-the-counter medicines can trigger a dangerous reaction if they're combined with certain other drugs, dietary supplements, and even everyday foods and beverages. To minimize the risk for drug interactions, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urges health care consumers to:
Learn as much as possible about the medicines they take,
Follow the directions on drug labels carefully, and
Ask their doctors about ways to reduce the risk for adverse reactions to medication.

Even dairy milk products can make it difficult for your body to process certain antibiotics. Minerals in milk like calcium and magnesium are part of the reason, along with the protein casein.

Some Common Foods We Take Can Cause Adverse Reactions To Medication:

Dark chocolate can weaken the effects of drugs meant to calm you down or make you sleep, like zolpidem tartrate (Ambien). It also can boost the power of some stimulant drugs, like methylphenidate (Ritalin). If you take an MAO inhibitor, used to treat depression, it can make your blood pressure dangerously high.

Alcohol makes certain drugs less effective, including some blood pressure and heart medicines. Alcohol can cause dangerous side effects.

Coffee can weaken antipsychotic drugs like lithium and clozapine, but boost the effects and side effects of others, including aspirin, epinephrine, and albuterol which is taken by inhaler for breathing problems.

Medical Signs and Symptoms are signals of injury, illness and disease

Medical Signs and symptoms are signals of injury, illness and disease

Signs and symptoms signal that something is not right in the body.

A sign is a signal that can be seen by someone else, like someone you see regularly, or health care professional. Fever, fast breathing, and abnormal lung sounds heard through a stethoscope may be signs of pneumonia.

A symptom is a signal that’s felt or noticed by the person who has it, but may not be seen by others. Weakness, aching, and feeling short of breath may be symptoms of pneumonia.
One sign or symptom may not be enough to know what’s causing it. A rash in a child could be a sign of any number of things, such as poison ivy, measles, a skin infection, or a food allergy. If the child has the rash along with other signs and symptoms like a high fever, chills, and a sore throat, then a doctor can get a better picture of the illness. A patient’s signs and symptoms don’t give the doctor enough clues to be sure the cause of the illness. Medical tests, like x-rays, blood tests, or a biopsy may be needed.

Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts.

Asclepius or Hepius, son of Apollo, is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts.

His daughters are Hygieia, the goddess of health, cleanliness, and sanitation, Iaso, the goddess of recuperation from illness, Aceso, the goddess of the healing process, Aegle, the goddess of the glow of good health, and Panacea, the goddess of universal remedy. The rod of Asclepius, a snake-entwined staff is the symbol of medicine. Physicians and attendants who served this god were known as the Therapeutae of Asclepius.