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Originally Posted by SweetbabyJ
ok thanks for convincing me to go to the doctor everyone.
He gave me cephalexin and sulfamethoxazole/trimethropin.
Can I booze? I've always heard that alcohol kills the effect of antibiotics but it seems this might be a myth. The warnings on the side don't mention alcohol. Tell me I can booze it up please.
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Antibiotics have been one of the greatest success stories of modern medicine - up there with the discovery of vaccination. There are many myths about mixing alcohol and antibiotics and most of them are just myths and nothing more! It's one of the great myths that mixing antibiotics with alcohol can seriously mess you up. While it's unwise to mix medicine with alcohol, only few drugs are affected by the action of it. The truth is that antibiotics have different routes of leaving the body, some broken down in the liver, excreted in the urine or passing straight through in the faeces. To a large extent this determines how long they stay active in the body and how often you need to take them. Alcohol may increase the excretion rate or slow down the rate drugs are broken down.
Antibiotics and alcohol
Everyone has heard about the common myth conception 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 potentially causing
* nausea,
* vomiting,
* convulsions,
* abdominal cramps,
* headaches,
* fast heart rate and
* Flushing.
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 and impair your judgment, liberate aggressive tendencies, reduce your energy state.
Only few classes of antibiotics should be avoided when drinking alcohol.
It is necessary to completely avoid drinking when taking the following antibiotics:
* Metronidazole – the side-effects include flushing, breathlessness, headache, increased or irregular heart rate, low blood pressure, nausea and vomiting.
* Tinidazole is chemically similar to metronidazole and so may cause the same reaction
* furazolidone (Furoxone),
* griseofulvin (Grisactin),
* Antimalarial Quinacrine (Atabrine)…
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