Studies of food drug interactions.
Medicines can treat and alleviate many diseases provided that they must be taken properly to ensure that they are safe and useful. One issue related with the medicines is that whether to take on empty stomach or with food. The present work gives information regarding food-drug interactions that were studied by collecting seventy five prescriptions from various hospitals. In most of the collected prescriptions, food-drug interactions were detected using the literature available. It was also found that only few studies have been carried out so far on the effect of food on drug disposition in the Asian population. Thus more studies on food-drug interactions particularly in the local population is recommended in order to determine the effect of food and food components on drug disposition and to the kinetics of the drugs which has not yet well highlighted in this part of the world.
Aman
Syed Faisal
SF
Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan.
Hassan
Fouzia
F
Naqvi
Baqar S
BS
Hasan
Syed Muhammmad Farid
SM
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D019540:Area Under Curve; D001682:Biological Availability; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D018565:Food-Drug Interactions; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged