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 can cause liver damage to or abnormal liver function.
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 will endanger 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, facial flushing, congestion of the eye conjunctiva, blurred vision, violent pulsation of blood vessels in the head and neck or pulsating headache , dizziness, nausea, vomiting, sweating, dry mouth , chest pain , myocardial infarction, acute heart failure, difficulty breathing, acute liver injury and other symptoms.
3. Do not drink alcohol when taking these 5 types of medicines!
1. Cephalospores + alcohol = "poison"
Use certain cephalosporins (cefoperone, ceftazidime , ceftriaxone, cefazoxime, cefazolin, cefixime, 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) can cause dangerous consequences if used with alcohol, 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 heavily 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 also damages the stomach. The two can lead to gastritis, gastric ulcers, , gastric bleeding, etc., and may also cause vasodilation, hypotension, , or even shock, life-threatening .
4. Low-glycemic drugs + alcohol = hypoglycemic shock
Alcohol will stimulate the secretion of insulin . If the patient has just taken the anti-glycemic drugs, his blood sugar has dropped to the standard value. At this time, alcohol increases the secretion of insulin, which will inevitably cause hypoglycemia. Especially after taking glipenoprene urea or drinking alcohol after insulin injection, has a higher chance of hypoglycemia.
5. Antidepressants + alcohol = aggravate the condition and increase 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 .
health tips
1. Strictly speaking, as long as you take medicine, you are no longer suitable for drinking.
2. Taking sleeping, pain relief, depression, and lowering sugar drugs and drinking alcohol will cause a series of extreme discomforts called disulfiram-like reactions, which will endanger life.
3. Do not drink alcohol when taking these 5 types of medicines!
cephalospores + alcohol = "poison"
sleeping pills + alcohol = dyspnea
painkillers + alcohol = dilemma
painkillers + alcohol = gastrointestinal bleeding
hypoglycemic drugs + alcohol = hypoglycemic shock
antidepressants + alcohol = aggravate the condition and increase blood pressure
Source: CCTV Life Circle People's Daily Science Popularization, 37 Degrees丨Yangtze River Health Media
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