Medications & Nutrition
Helping busy clinicians access clinically-useful drug-nutrient and drug-food interactions research
Empowering busy clinicians to enhance patient care by simplifying the complex world of drug-nutrition interactions
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Medications have profoundly and positively changed health outcomes however they do generally come with some nutritional harms. By identifying and addressing the nutritional harms, optimal health outcomes are closer to being achieved.
Innovative clinicians are always looking for new expertise and/or new skills and/or new knowledge so they can continue to provide their best service to the people in their care – are you an innovative clinician? Will you integrate pharmaconutrition into your daily clinical practice?
Our online portal lists a comprehensive range of drugs (~ 6,000) that are associated with the drug:nutrition interface i.e. drugs that alter nutritional factors (drug-nutrient interactions, drug-food interactions) and nutritional factors that alter drug effects (eg malnutrition, weight change).
Brand name: Pastiche (mix)
Generic name: Sample
Function/Action: XXXX
Nutrients affected
Adverse reactions
Biochemical factors
Na142
B126, 84
B1270
folate1, 2Nausea8, 41, 98
Vomiting8, 41, 98
Constipation8, 41, 98
Diarrhoea8, 41, 98
Inc Weight8, 41, 98
Dec Appetite8, 41, 98
Altered taste8, 41
Dry mouth1, 2
Dysphagia8, 41, 98hypoalbuminaemia8, 41
anaemia8, 41, 98
hypoglycaemia1
hyperglycaemia2
hypokalaemia8, 41
hypocalcaemia8, 41, 98
hypophosphataemia8, 41, 98
hyperthyroidism41
hypercholesterolaemia41Pharmacokinetics
Drug Food Interactions
Drug Nutrient Interactions
Membrane transporters
Non Oral Feeding
Impaired Swallow
Note - superscripted numbers are reference numbers.
Only look once for that prescribed medicine's information
Comprehensive range of prescribed medicines.
Each prescribed medicine's information is listed by brand name.
You can confirm the reliability of the information yourself
All entries referenced.
Not included - papers that contain a mismatch between data presented and conclusions.
Maintains currency of the information
Updated on a monthly basis.
No editorial
You form your own conclusions.
The data is objective therefore you will apply it based on your own experiences and clinical practice.
Once you identify an interaction then you can manage it
Includes interactions between prescribed medicines and foodstuffs, alcoholic beverages, some "drug" transporters, and vitamins and minerals.
Once you identify an issue then you can manage it
Also includes impacts on BSLs, binding to plasma proteins, adverse reactions (relating to nutritional impacts), impacted nutritional biochemical factors, non-oral feeding, impaired swallow reflex.
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Helping busy clinicians access clinically-useful drug-nutrient and drug-food interactions research