date:Nov 30, 2012
Doctors have issued a warning about mixing grapefruit consumption with certain types of medication.
The fruit can prevent the body from breaking down the medicines, thus potentially causing overdose.
Researchers who first identified the link with the fruit and such problems say that the number of associated drugs is rising rapidly.
The team at the Lawson Health Research Institute in Canada said the number of drugs which had serious side effects with grapefruit had gone from 17 in 2008 to 4