Posted by shasling on April 7, 2009, at 22:55:50
In reply to MAOI food question, posted by garnet71 on April 7, 2009, at 18:14:15
Maois mainly the irreversable ones allow various chemicals,ones in foods,and just others alone to accumalte,this leaves a wide margin for things which alone would be harmless but to now be dangerous.
Some chemicals can accumalte in the brain which is why brain blood hemorage can be one fatal reaction on a maoi......as well as in the body which is why blood pressure and heart attack can be another.
Maois are what you call DIRTY drugs,meaning they are not SELECTIVE in their actions therefore unlike other drugs designed to end up at a specific point makes them a double edged sword,dangerous on wide hand,BUT SINCE they affect so many things it also gives them a much wider theprutic window for people who do not respond to most ssris.
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