Hydralazine causes dilation of the walls of blood vessels and is sometimes used to treat hypertension.
Supplementation Likely Helpful
Hydralazine is known to deplete the blood of vitamin B
6
. Taking B
6
supplements may prevent or reverse side effects of the medication.
1,2
Supplementation Possibly Helpful
There is some evidence that hydralazine might impair the body's ability to manufacture the substance coenzyme Q
10
(CoQ
10
).
3
This suggests (but definitely does not prove) that taking CoQ
10
supplements may produce a beneficial effect.
Theoretical Interaction
The herb
Coleus forskohlii
relaxes blood vessels and might have unpredictable effects if combined with hydralazine.
1.
Shils M, et al. (eds.). Modern nutrition in health and disease, 9th ed. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1999: 1634.
2.
Goodman L and Gilman A. The pharmacological basis of therapeutics, 9th ed. Hardman J, et al (eds.). New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996: 1562.
3.
Kishi H, et al. Bioenergetics in clinical medicine. III. Inhibition of coenzyme Q
10
-enzymes by clinically used anti-hypertensive drugs.
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