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Grapefruit (the fruit not the bottled juice)ok with lithium, luvox (fluvoxamine)?

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Dr. Matt Wachsman answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Sorry, lost connecti: connection earlier Lthium is a salt that goes through the kidney. Changes int he gut metabolsim of drugs by grapefruit juice has zero potential effect on Lithium http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9347381 Note, however, they worked very well together !!! Luvox is liver metabolized and likely to be incresed with grapefruit juice. Some effect. LUVOX has huge effects on liver metabolized drugs, btw

Answered 9/28/2016

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