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? asked in HealthOther - Health · 9 years ago

How soon after a course of antibiotics can you drink alcohol?

I've been prescribed antibiotics for 10 days but I have a party the night after I am due to finish them and was wondering if its too soon to drink alcohol then, and if so, what amount of time I should wait before consuming any alcoholic beverages.

Thanks :)

Update:

The antibiotics I'm on are Phenoxymethylpenicillin if that changes anything.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    It all Depends on what kind of alcohol you drink and what kind of antibiotics you take.

    If your liver is generally healthy, you can begin drinking alcohol right after you stop..just be sure to be taking some sort of probiotic while you are on antibiotics or right after. Culterelle is a great choice!

    Alcohol may influence the absorption of anti-biotics in the system. I would wait about 3 hours before consuming alcohol.

    The antibiotic metronidazole can interact with alcohol to cause violent nausea and vomiting. Avoid alcohol for a couple of days after finishing a round of this medication

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    wait sixteen hours in the previous eating. that antibiotic has a 0.5 existence of 8 hours Metronidazole and Ethanol (Alcohol) reasonable Drug interaction often evade: Use of alcohol or products containing alcohol for the duration of nitroimidazole therapy might bring about a disulfiram-like reaction in some sufferers. there have been some case comments related to metronidazole yet information at the instant are not convincing. The proposed mechanism is metronidazole inhibition of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) such as disulfiram. Following ingestion of alcohol, inhibition of ALDH ends up in extra advantageous concentration of acetaldehyde, the accumulation of which produces an unpleasant physiologic reaction stated by way of fact the 'disulfiram reaction'. indications incorporate flushing, throbbing in head and neck, throbbing headache, respiratory difficulty, nausea, vomiting, sweating, thirst, chest soreness, palpitation, dyspnea, hyperventilation, tachycardia, hypotension, syncope, weak spot, vertigo, blurred imaginative and prescient, and confusion. intense reactions might bring about respiratory melancholy, cardiovascular crumple, arrhythmias, myocardial infarction, acute congestive heart failure, unconsciousness, convulsions, and demise.

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