Aim: To increase patients` awareness of the health risks of certain drug-food interactions and to present their competence in the problem.
Materials and methods: Systematic approach of available scientific literature on the problem and specially designed questionnaire.
Results: Interactions between food and drugs may affect treatment results and be the reason of undesirable side effects. The clinical significance of this type of cooperation is varied. Some foods may sensitively influence the rate and extent of absorption of the active substance. That in turn could cause serious side effects, toxicity or treatment failure. In other cases, the food-drug interaction could have a favorable aftereffect by increasing the drug efficacy or reducing the side effects. Our dynamic present offers increasingly wide range of medicines. This requires the study of precisely these two types of interactions with food before the release of a drug on the market
Conclusions: The results of the survey should reflect on patients` general health culture and their awareness of proper drug intake
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