Some foods that are part of our daily diet can interfere with the effects of medicines to improve health, so it is recommended not to mix, at least for a while. Side effects (that cause certain types of alterations to the body) of certain drugs may be due to our own body, as there are factors that influence it so.

For example, the process of digesting food in the body can interfere positively or negatively on the use of the drug in the body, as there are some medicines that are deemed better in the presence of food in the digestive tract, also, there are others require an empty stomach to perform adequately.

High percentage, when the drugs taken on an empty stomach may cause some gastric problems such as abdominal pain, nausea and cramping, but this also depends on the patient’s nutritional status, sex, age and dose of drug.

Moreover, some doctors sometimes fail to ask about the diet of their patients and therefore do not indicate what kind of drink or food should be avoided or consumed, if any, that the drug does not have an opposite effect desired. Then some bad combinations you should avoid:

Drugs Antibiotics: Used to treat infections. Refrain from drinking alcohol during the duration of his administration to prevent stomach aches, nausea, vomiting or flushing of the face. In particular, tetracyclines should not be taken within the first two hours after eating dairy products like milk, yogurt or cheese, or after taking calcium or iron, which can cause major stomach problems.

Antihistamine medications: Used to prevent and relieve symptoms of colds, asthma, rhinitis, and certain allergies. During his administration avoid consumption of alcoholic beverages, as this combination produces drowsiness and reflexes react slowly.

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Some of these medicines are:

* Antibiotics to treat infections
* Hormone Treatment for adult women and adolescents who have heavy menstrual bleeding
* A synthetic form of erythropoietin to stimulate the body to produce more red blood cells. This hormone carries    certain risks. You and your doctor will decide whether the benefits of this treatment outweigh the risks.
* Medicines to prevent the immune system destroys its own red blood cells
* Chelation to treat lead poisoning. Chelation is used primarily for children, because children with iron deficiency anemia are more at risk for lead poisoning.

If your anemia is severe, you may need medical procedures to treat it. These procedures are blood transfusions and transplantation of blood stem cells and bone marrow.

Blood transfusion

Blood transfusions are very common and safe procedures in which a person receives blood through an intravenous line placed in one of their vessels. To perform a transfusion is necessary to do meticulous testing to ensure that donor blood is compatible with the recipient’s blood.

For more information, see the “Blood Transfusion” (English only).
Transplantation of blood stem cells and bone marrow

In transplants of stem cells from blood and bone marrow stem cells replace abnormal or defective one person (a receiver) with healthy cells from another person (a donor). Stem cells found in bone marrow. There are transformed into red cells, white cells and platelets.

During the transplant, which is like a blood transfusion, the recipient receives the donor’s stem cells through a tube that has been put into a chest vein. When stem cells are in the body of the receiver, run to the marrow and begin producing new blood cells.

For more information, see the article “Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplant” (English only).

Surgery

If you have a serious or life-threatening bleeding that is causing anemia, you may need surgery. For example, you may need surgery to control bleeding caused by a constant stomach ulcer or colon cancer.

If your body is destroying red cells at high speed may have to undergo surgery to remove the spleen. The spleen is an organ that removes red blood cells and destroys them. If the spleen is sick or larger than normal red blood cells and removes more cause anemia.

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