1. Can you drink alcohol when taking antibacterial drugs?
Strictly speaking, as long as you take medicine, you are no longer suitable for drinking. Whether it is red wine, beer or white wine, as long as you take the medicine, it is not suitable to drink alcohol within one to two days after you stop the medicine. Especially when drinking alcohol, drug metabolism will cause liver damage to or liver function abnormality.
Among them, some drugs with sleeping, pain relief, depression, lowering sugar and other functions have a very serious reaction to alcohol. If you take this type of drug and drink alcohol, it will cause a series of , which is medically called disulfiram-like reaction , which is extremely uncomfortable , which in turn endangeres life-threatening . It is recommended that everyone should reject alcohol, especially when taking antibacterial drugs.
2. What is a disulfiram-like reaction?
Some drugs have a similar effect to disulfiram , affecting the metabolism of alcohol, making it easy to show drunkenness when drinking after taking these drugs, which is called disulfiram-like reaction. Disulfiram itself is a drug that abstains from alcohol. When used in combination with ethanol, it can inhibit the acetaldehyde dehydrogenase in the liver, so that ethanol can no longer be decomposed and oxidized after oxidizing it in the body, resulting in the accumulation of acetaldehyde in the body and a series of reactions.
Many drugs have similar effects as disulfiram. If you drink alcohol after taking the medicine, you will experience symptoms such as Flushing on the face, conjunctiva congestion, blurred vision, violent pulsation of blood vessels in the head and neck or pulsating headaches in the head and neck, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, sweating, dry mouth, , chest pain in the mouth, myocardial infarction, acute heart failure, difficulty breathing, acute liver injury, etc.
3. Do not drink alcohol when taking these 5 types of medicines!
1. Cephalosporins + alcohol = "poison"
. Use certain cephalosporins (cefoperone, ceftazidime, ceftriaxone, cefzoxime, cefoxazole, cefoxomine, cefaclo , etc.) and drink alcohol, resulting in poisoning reaction caused by acetaldehyde accumulation in the body. It is mainly manifested as chest tightness , shortness of breath, laryngeal edema, cyanosis of the lip, difficulty breathing, increased heart rate, decreased blood pressure, hallucination, trance, and even allergic shock .
2. Sleeping pills + alcohol = dyspnea
Sleeping pills (Shule An Ding or Ambien) If used in combination with alcohol, it will cause dangerous consequences, because alcohol will aggravate the sedative effect of sleeping pills, inhibit brain activity, and cause severe drowsiness and dizziness. If the user is active, it also increases the risk of falling, injury and car accidents. Taking sleeping pills while drinking alcohol in large quantities will reduce blood pressure to extremely low levels and cause to breathe .
3. Pain analgesics + alcohol = gastrointestinal bleeding
such as aspirin, paracetamol , etc. This type of medicine itself has an irritation and damage to the gastric mucosa, and alcohol can also damage the stomach. The two can lead to gastritis, gastric ulcers, , gastric bleeding, etc., and may also cause vasodilation, hypotension, or even shock, and life-threatening .
4. Low-glycemic drugs + alcohol = hypoglycemia shock
Alcohol will stimulate the secretion of insulin . If the patient has just taken the anti-glycemia drugs, his blood sugar has dropped to the standard value. At this time, alcohol increases insulin secretion, which will inevitably cause hypoglycemia. Especially after taking glipenoprene urea or drinking alcohol after insulin injection, the chance of hypoglycemia in is higher.
5. Antidepressants + alcohol = aggravate the condition, increase in blood pressure
Antidepressants and drinking alcohol will delay the running rhythm of central nervous system , affect the brain's function and thinking ability, and weaken alertness. Combining the two can make people feel sleepy, reduce people's judgment, physical coordination and reaction time, and even worsen the symptoms of depression.
