It’s known that HIV-positive patients who take the medicine known as Truvada shouldn’t drink grapefruit juice or eat grapefruit.
Grapefruit and grapefruit juice can interact with Truvada. Specifically, grapefruit products can stop your body from breaking down tenofovir, one of the active ingredients in Truvada. This raises the level of tenofovir in your body, which increases your risk of side effects from Truvada.* Due to this risk, your doctor may recommend not consuming grapefruit and grapefruit juice while taking the drug.
Truvada is a brand name of tenofovir. It says that grapefruit products interact with the medication which can potentially have negative side effects.
Am I correct to assume that those of us who take Viread or another medicine based on tenofovir shouldn’t eat grapefruit? On the other hand, it’s not mentioned on the leaflet attached to the drug.
What if I did already so? Is someone knowledgeable in that regard?