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HIV NUTRITION UPDATE
VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2

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Food Medication Interactions
The popular Food Medication Interactions (12th edition - ISBN 0-9710896-0-4) authored by Zaneta M. Pronsky, MS, RD, FADA is available as a handy pocket-sized reference book and Computerized Food-Medication Interactions software. This informative and useful book offers an alphabetical listing of more than 1,000 medications by both generic and trade names and is cross-referenced as well. To help identify food interactions, effects reported 5% or more frequently than with a placebo are underlined and effects reported 20% or more are capitalized and underlined. Each entry contains information on when and how to take the medication; effects that alter nutritional status; specific dietary recommendations; possible gastrointestinal effects; potential interactions and reaction alerts; use during pregnancy; alterations in laboratory parameters; and commonly published recommendations for specific patient monitoring. The software adds a variety of useful tools to help the clinician including the ability to print patient handouts.

As with most book revisions, the twelfth edition of Food Medications Interactions is larger than previous issues and holds a variety of useful reference tools. The resource has information on the effects of medication on food intake and nutritional status and guidelines for counseling medicated patients. Numerous tables are included such as drug-alcohol interactions, herbal product cautions, micronutrient food sources, and laboratory values.
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This edition also includes a chart detailing grapefruit juice and drug interactions, a chart defining the Food and Drug Administration pregnancy categories for level of risk with drug exposure and an enlarged table of abbreviations and symbols. In addition, the author includes guidelines for counseling medicated patients, Medical Nutrition Therapy to aid in the relief of medication side effects and herbal/natural product monographs and information.

The 372 page spiral-bound Food Medication Interactions contains 102 references and is a welcome addition to any clinician's library. Additional information on this reliable resource is at  the Food Medication Interactions web site .

2001, softcover spiral, 6” x 5”, 372 pages, $24.95 + S&H, Food-Medication Interactions, Birchrunville, PA  800/746-2324.

Reviewed by: Sharon Ann Meyer, AA, AS, DTR, President, HIV ReSources, Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
 

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