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Article: Fruit Juices Block Popular Allergy Drug.(Allegra absorption blocked by fruit juice injestion)
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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There could be a simple reason why you're not getting relief from the antihistamine drug Allegra (fexofenadine), a popular allergy remedy this time of year. Researchers from the University of Western Ontario found that when 10 healthy volunteers took Allegra with fruit juice, they absorbed only about one-third as much of the drug as when they took it with water.
Though other juices also blocked the drug's action, grapefruit juice was the most powerful; its drug-inhibiting effect ...