Sunday, May 23, 2010

Is it true that you can't drink alcohol whilst taking a course of antibiotics?

I always thought that the antibiotics didn't work properly and that you also got drunk more easily if you did this but now someone has told me it's a myth (although doctors tell you it's true)
Answer:
You should not drink alcohol while taking any medication. Alcohol has a tendency to alter the way medication is absorbed in the body.
its true...
It is so true. Alcohol and medication do not mix. You may actually end up getting an allergic reaction.
i heard that it is true. it neutralizes the effect of the drug.
Although the effect varies with the antibiotic, virtually all of them are degraded to some extent by adding alcohol to the body. Some of them are sensitive to other chemicals and patients are warned off other beverages including caffine containing soda and coffee. In some cases the effect occurs in the stomach when the medicine is taken in pill form, in other cases in the blood stream.
As for getting drunk more easily, that part sounds a little strange (how would you measure "drunk" - balance, vision, coordination, "buzz", judgement), since some drugs are disorienting with alcohol you might be more so.
A widespread myth holds that you shouldn't drink alcohol while taking antibiotics, but in fact, drinking doesn't lessen the effects of the drugs. However, alcohol can lower your general energy and delay your recovery so it is best to minimize drinking until you've finished the prescribed course of antibiotic treatment. (Beyond that, chronic liver damage from excessive alcohol consumption can affect the metabolism and toxicity of antibiotics.)
Just as it's true that oral contraception is not as effective whilst on medication, but the main thing with antibiotics is to make sure you finish the course.Where did you get them from? I thought doctors were under strict instructions not to provide them these days, sounds like your realy sick so what are you doing drinking alcohol?
won't hurt you but it won't help you either, it cancels out whatever dose is in your system at the time. So it doesn't make sense is all- if you must drink skip a dose and resume at your next dose like you do when you accidentally forgot to take it. Also Dr's don't like it because not only do they want you to take all your medication properly and on time, but drinking lowers your immune system- which if your on meds means your already compromised.
Nope! You are correct that it is a myth!The widespread myth holds that you shouldn't drink alcohol while taking antibiotics, but in fact, drinking doesn't lessen the effects of the drugs. However, alcohol can lower your general energy and delay your recovery so it is best to minimize drinking until you've finished the prescribed course of antibiotic treatment. (Beyond that, chronic liver damage from excessive alcohol consumption can affect the metabolism and toxicity of antibiotics.)
The VD Clinics of the 1950s and 1960s gave the somber and serious advice that alcohol should absolutely not be used while taking penicillin. But there were no significant chemical interactions between penicillin and alcohol. The real reason that this advice was given was for moral reasons, not pharmacological reasons. The medicos of the day were worried that alcohol would reduce the inhibitions of the sufferers, and that, while under the influence, they might get a little "frisky" and pass on their infection to another person, before the penicillin had a chance to cure the sexually transmitted diseases. That's how the mythconception that alcohol should never be taken with antibiotics arose.Even so, it's well known that alcohol can interact quite nastily with a small number of modern drugs such as tinidazole (Fasigyn) and metronidazole (Flagyl), potentially causing nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, headaches, fast heart rate and flushing. And alcohol can reduce the absorption of other antibiotics such as the doxycyclines and tetracyclines. But these few interactions are well known to both medical doctors and pharmacists.Mind you, alcohol can put an extra load on your liver and immune system, can impair your judgment, liberate aggressive tendencies, reduce your energy state - and can be associated with staying up late, behaving recklessly, and not getting all the rest that your body needs to heal itself. So half a glass of an alcoholic beverage of our choice would be fine with most antibiotics.
TOTALLY TRUE
MY DOCTOR ALLWAYS TOLD ME
DRINK 1 BEER A DAY LESS THAN HIM
AND I WOULD ALWAYS BE IN GOOD HEALTH!!
HE WAS AN ALCOHOLIC
With some antibiotics you can drink, but it works quicker if you don't.
For a very small number of antibiotics, alcohol inhibits their action. It is likely your doctor would tell you if you were on these, but you should ask if you are unclear. However for other antibiotics, as alcohol causes diuresis (i.e. makes you urinate more) it speeds up how fast the antibiotics are processed so would slightly reduce their effectiveness. With these, the antibiotics are more effective if you don't drink alcohol but they can still work.
If you are taking flagyl (metradiazole) and you drink you will feel very ill. that's because chemically it is very similar to antabuse - the drug they give alcoholics - it reacts with the alcohol to make you feel sick.Most antibiotics will work with alcohol.The reason for the myth is that antibiotics were first used in numbers to treat venereal disease n the 1950's. Doctors thought that if people went to parties and got drunk they would have more sex and spread the disease before it had been cleared, so people were told to abstain from both sex and alcohol.
its not always true. It depoends what medication you are taking.
best to ask ur doctor whether u can or not.
even though people say you shouldnt i dont thionk its true because alcoholics still have to take antiboitics some times and its not as though they will stop drinking so yeh..#best to ask your doctors.
It all depends on which antibiotics you are on,some of them react with alcohol resulting in the positive effects being cancelled out therefore being a waste of time taking them which is a waste of money %26 one of the reasons doctors will tell you not to drink on them since the NHS is already throwing away millions every year on medications that are wasted.Read the packet/leaflet with th tablets-they have to put the truth on them (side effects/do's %26 don'ts) by law.
it is true, booze lessons the effect of the meds, not the effect of what your drinkin
As a general rule, a glass of wine with dinner isn't going to make any difference, but there's much to take into account. Some antibiotics, for instance, will make you quite alcohol-intolerant, and you'll throw up an unbelievable amount.
Doctors, knowing more about drugs, tend to have a much greater respect for their ability to do bad things to you than is the case with the general public, and like to keep things conservative with any drug, and even moreso with mixtures of drugs, and that includes alcohol.
As far as I know the only antibiotics which specifically warn you not to drink are the dental ones.
my dear it is for ur liver. liver has to deal with the antibiotics and the alcohol. if u take both the liver will clear them out slowly and this will not be good for u and ur liver. this may result in prolonged activity of drugs and when u take the next dose the last dose mite still high leading to an ova dose.
so ur doctors are right u shud not do it. and just becoz sumone said nothing happened to them when they did it does not mean u can do it and get away with it becoz our bodies are different and react differently to situations.
well physically one can do whatever they like lol ,would i recommend it naaaaa, but i am not a dr. so if you are not sure i would take your drs advice and not risk any problems
Read the label!!!

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