WARNING: Taking Amlodipine? These 8 Habits Are Secretly Screwing With Your Meds – Ditch ‘Em NOW!

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WARNING: Taking Amlodipine? These 8 Habits Are Secretly Screwing With Your Meds – Ditch ‘Em NOW!

Amlodipine: 8 habits worth watching
Amlodipine is a calcium-channel blocker used to treat high blood pressure and angina. It relaxes blood vessels, helping blood flow more easily.

The image’s warning has some truth behind it, but it exaggerates the risks. Here are eight things worth knowing.

1. Eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice – Grapefruit may increase amlodipine’s effects and worsen side effects. Follow your medication leaflet and ask your pharmacist about it.

2. Drinking too much alcohol – Alcohol can increase blood-pressure lowering, causing dizziness, light-headedness or fainting.

3. Taking medications without checking interactions – Certain antibiotics, antifungals and heart medications can increase amlodipine levels.

4. Using herbal supplements without checking – St John’s wort, for example, can interfere with amlodipine.

5. Taking certain cholesterol medications without reviewing the dose – Amlodipine increases simvastatin exposure. The recommended maximum simvastatin dose with amlodipine is gen