title: Drugs and nutrition.
abstract: The importance of a balanced diet with proper quantities of foods cannot be overemphasized. Consideration must be given also to food's digestion and absorption, transport to tissues, and utilization by cells. Interference during any stage of this process can result in nutritional deficiency. Certain foodstuffs can alter susceptibility to a drug, and certain drugs can affect the nutritional status of an individual.There are special considerations to be taken in giving drugs to patients with certain diseases in the treatment of which diet therapy plays an important role. Extra consideration and monitoring must be done when dispensing certain drugs to such patients because of their special nutritional requirements.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004032:Diet; D004035:Diet Therapy; D004358:Drug Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena