Other drugs are frequently prescribed and used together with steroids to improve or maintain the condition including azathioprine and cyclosporin.
Grapefruit It is best to avoid eating grapefruit It is best to avoid eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice (it interferes with the level of cyclosporin in your blood ).
Drugs commonly used to suppress the immune system after transplant include prednisone, azathioprine (Imuran ), cyclosporin, OKT3 and ALG.
Because of their effect on renal prostaglandins, cyclo-oxygenase inhibitors such as naproxen can increase the nephrotoxicity of cyclosporin.
They suggested that the combination of FK 506 with cyclosporin may prove more useful.