Negative Medicine Interactions
I just learned the hard way this morning that meds with advisory of avoiding grapefruit by extension also includes pomelo. I know it’s probably a niche overlap but hopes it’ll help someone else to not experience what I did.
I’ve been craving grapefruit for months and assumed that pomelo would be a great substitute and didn’t realize that grapefruit and pomelos have the same enzymes that makes your body have the overdose effect that could lead to death. I’m very grateful my partner was there to help. I had previously scoffed at it with the mentality of “it can’t be that bad, but I’m not gonna temp it anyways.” Now that I know how bad it feels and how dangerous it could be I know I’ll be way more careful in the further with other ethnic citrus fruits.