HEALTHY EATING AND WEIGHT LOSS – THE NEW ANTIDEPRESSANT DANGER; WHAT NEVER TO FEED YOUNG CHILDREN
Common foods can cause headaches, fever, visual disturbances, confusion and a dangerous rise in blood pressure when eaten by individuals taking a prescribed antidepressant.
self-defense: Avoid tyramine-containing foods while taking a monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor—even for several weeks after you stop taking the drug. Tyramine-containing foods include avocados, bananas, bologna, broad beans, aged cheese, caviar, chicken liver (stored), miso soup, meat concentrate (in gravy), pepperoni, pickled herring, salami, summer sausage, soy sauce, wines (Chianti and vermouth) and yeast extract (marmite).
Peanuts are easily aspirated into the lungs…and peanuts are one of the most common—and dangerous—foods to which one may develop an allergy.
most at risk: Those from high-risk families—where both parents or one parent and a sibling are food-allergic. Even trace quantities can trigger an attack in peanut-allergic individuals.
example: A boy began wheezing when ajar of peanut butter was merely opened nearby.
helpful: Alert teachers and other caregivers to the food allergy…have the child wear a MedicAlert bracelet (call 888-633-4298 for information)…older children should be taught to use spring-loaded syringes of epinephrine to ward off attacks after inadvertently ingesting a food to which they are allergic.
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