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How long after taking a 7day course of antibiotics can I drink alcohol?
I've been taking phenoxymethylpenicillin for a throat infection and my course finished on the 30th. It's new years eve on the 31st so do you think id be okay to start drinking at midnight? Please help!!! I've been googling like crazy lol and my gp is currently shut so I can't ask my doctor! Thanks so much if you can help :)
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- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
Its a myth that you cant drink when taking antibiotics, as long as you feel good and you are sure that you have FULLY recovered from your infection you will be fine to have a few drinks even before midnight, i say just a few because if you don't take it easy, the infection can often come back and you would end up needing another course of pills which would not be a great way to start the new year!
Relax and have fun!
- ?Lv 44 years ago
Nope! you're magnificent that that's a fantasy! The conventional fantasy holds which you're able to no longer drink alcohol whilst taking antibiotics, yet in reality, ingesting would not shrink the as a result drugs. although, alcohol can decrease your usual capability and postpone your restoration so it is terrific to cut back ingesting till you have finished the prescribed process antibiotic therapy. (previous that, continual liver harm from severe alcohol intake can impression the metabolism and toxicity of antibiotics.) The VD Clinics of the Fifties and Sixties gave the somber and serious suggestion that alcohol could actually no longer be used whilst taking penicillin. yet there have been no important chemical interactions between penicillin and alcohol. the genuine reason that this suggestion became given became for ethical reasons, no longer pharmacological reasons. The medicos of the day have been fearful that alcohol could scale back the inhibitions of the victims, and that, whilst below the effect, they could get a sprint "frisky" and bypass on their an infection to a diverse man or woman, till now the penicillin had of venture to treatment the sexually transmitted ailments. this is how the mythconception that alcohol could by no ability be all in favour of antibiotics arose. nevertheless, that's properly ordinary that alcohol can work together somewhat nastily with a small style of cutting-edge drugs which comprise tinidazole (Fasigyn) and metronidazole (Flagyl), probably inflicting nausea, vomiting, belly cramps, issues, rapid heart fee and flushing. And alcohol can cut back the absorption of alternative antibiotics such because of the fact the doxycyclines and tetracyclines. yet those few interactions are properly ordinary to the two medical docs and pharmacists. strategies you, alcohol can positioned an added load on your liver and immune equipment, can impair your judgment, liberate aggressive inclinations, cut back your capability state - and can be linked with staying up previous due, behaving recklessly, and not getting all the rest that your physique desires to heal itself. So a million/2 a pitcher of an alcoholic beverage of our determination could be high quality with maximum antibiotics.
- Commander ThrawnLv 49 years ago
It probably depends more on your general health. Read the labels from the antibiotics to see if there are any warnings about alcohol, but I doubt you would have any problems if you are healthy.