Would you drink on antibiotics?

BetterThanThou

Now, I'm pretty sure everyone has heard this rumour, but this discussion has come up with me and my friends a few times recently. Everyone I know seems to believe this rumour, despite the fact there's absolutely no substance to it. A very few antibiotics do react with alcohol, just as some drugs of pretty much every class react with alcohol, but not penicillin or penicillin derivatives, which are the majority of antibiotics prescribed. Naturally, if you're feeling unwell, you probably shouldn't drink, but if you're on antibiotics for either a minor infection, or finishing up a course and have been feeling grand for a few days, I don't see the harm in it. I have no idea where this rumour started and why everyone is so stubborn about it. Hell, I ended up in a pub with my mate for a drink yesterday, and he refused to have even one pint because he was finishing up a course of antibiotics. I have absolutely no problem if someone doesn't want to drink, but it really grinds my gears when that's the reason.

El Weirdo

Good enough for me!

Fuck you, medical professionals!

Wooooooohoooooo!

The rumour was created back in the days when syphillus was all he rage. It was created to stop people with the disease going out drinking and riding.

There is only one antibiotic which you shouldn't take with alcohol which is flagyl, but you know yourself, talk to your doctor before you take the advice of someone called whoopsadaisydoodles off the interweb

anncoates

Why would they say not to drink?

Not challenging, just wondering. Just a generic warning for all medication?

Edit: just read above post. Sounds plausible

Tilly

They still work you just might get drunk quicker and on less.

ancapailldorcha

Seems a bit daft to be drinking if you're sick, no? It's only a few antibiotics that cause issues with alcohol.

djflawless

I'm drinking now and I'm pregnantly full of antibiotics....



I joke..I'm a guy and am broke

Vegeta

BetterThanThou wrote: »

I have absolutely no problem if someone doesn't want to drink, but it really grinds my gears when that's the reason.

Maybe he just didn't want to drink or is trying to cut down on alcohol consumption so used antibiotics as an excuse.

It's often easier tell a white lie than answer the probing questions which come with the truth.

SEPT 23 1989

drink and operate heavy machinery

The Backwards Man

Never stopped me before

retro:electro

Unless I'm specifically told by the doctor to not drink alcohol while taking them then I will, but I've rarely been told that. Have drank almost every time I've been on anti b's and can't say it made much of a difference.

BetterThanThou

Vegeta wrote: »

Maybe he just didn't want to drink or is trying to cut down on alcohol consumption so used antibiotics as an excuse.

It's often easier tell a white lie than answer the probing questions which come with the truth.

He definitely wasn't using it as an excuse, by "a drink", I do literally mean one drink, he ordered a coke and spent the whole half hour or so we were in the bar complaining about drinking a coke in a bar, he's definitely not trying to cut down on his alcohol consumption, he rarely drinks anyway.

arybvtcw0eolkf

No problem drinking with most medicines but HOLY F*CK twice in the last two weeks I've drank whilst using Tramadol & Valium for a sciatic nerve problem I'm having ~ blew the tits off me!!.

djflawless

Axl Young Technologist wrote: »

No problem drinking with most medicines but HOLY F*CK twice in the last two weeks I've drank whilst using Tramadol & Valium for a sciatic nerve problem I'm having ~ blew the tits off me!!.

Had a tattoo artist tell me that feminex and a flagon of devils bit are leeeeeeeeethal

anncoates

djflawless wrote: »

Had a tattoo artist tell me that feminex and a flagon of devils bit are leeeeeeeeethal

I actually knew somebody years ago that swore by feminax and cider for getting wrecked.

Their liver must have been in bits.

namloc1980

Timely topic. I'm currently on Augmentin (Penicillin) for a chest infection. The leaflet states there is no reaction between Penicillin and alcohol.

Ihatecuddles

What will pregnant women use as an excuse now??

djflawless

namloc1980 wrote: »

Timely topic. I'm currently on Augmentin (Penicillin) for a chest infection. The leaflet states there is no reaction between Penicillin and alcohol.

Enough of a reason to start drinking so

Pumpkinseeds

Deleted User wrote: »

The rumour was created back in the days when syphillus was all he rage. It was created to stop people with the disease going out drinking and riding.

There is only one antibiotic which you shouldn't take with alcohol which is flagyl, but you know yourself, talk to your doctor before you take the advice of someone called whoopsadaisydoodles off the interweb

The Flagyl is nasty stuff, drinking on it is the last thing you'd feel like doing. It's one of those drugs that lives up to the 'cure is worse than the disease' reputations.:D

adocholiday

I was prescribed Flagyl for a wisdom tooth infection a few years ago. I had 2 glasses of wine the day before finishing the course and never ever will I drink again while on ANY antibiotics... Horrific experience!

SEPT 23 1989

Macavity. wrote: »

Alcohol + Benzos is a recipe for disaster. I'm surprised your doctor didn't emphasise that.

He buys his stuff from a street pharmacist

HeidiHeidi

adocholiday wrote: »

I was prescribed Flagyl for a wisdom tooth infection a few years ago. I had 2 glasses of wine the day before finishing the course and never ever will I drink again while on ANY antibiotics... Horrific experience!

The only time I was told in No Uncertain Terms NOT TO DRINK while taking anti-b's (by both the dentist and the pharmacist, in deathly serious tones) was when give them after a wisdom tooth extraction. Was years ago, though, so I've no idea what the tablets actually were.

I always understood the reason for not mixing the two was that alcohol affected the efficacy of the anti-b's, not that it'd do you any particular harm.

BetterThanThou

Macavity. wrote: »

Alcohol + Benzos is a recipe for disaster. I'm surprised your doctor didn't emphasise that.

My deale.....pharmacist, told me benzos and alcohol is a great combination.

vienne86

If I'm on anti-biotics, I am sick and I feel the last thing I want is alcohol.

charlietheminxx

Is it not because it puts your liver under additional strain trying to process alcohol on top of meds?

tricky D

Yup, just off a course of Flagyl but will find out tomorrow if round 2 is needed (hope not or give me some thing else). That stuff will seriously screw up your liver with alcohol and all the pain that goes with it: cramps, hot flushes, arrhythmia... Wasn't even allowed the non-alcoholic beers which actually have around 0.5% abv. And you're not supposed to drink for 2/3 days afterwards. The beer fridge was never so neglected.

Anything else and it's where's the bar, every time with zero bother?

arybvtcw0eolkf

Macavity. wrote: »

Alcohol + Benzos is a recipe for disaster. I'm surprised your doctor didn't emphasise that.

Oh she did!.. But did I care

But never again!.

john the one

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The rumour was created back in the days when syphillus was all he rage. It was created to stop people with the disease going out drinking and riding.

There is only one antibiotic which you shouldn't take with alcohol which is flagyl, but you know yourself, talk to your doctor before you take the advice of someone called whoopsadaisydoodles off the interweb

Drinking whilst on flagyl will make you never want to drink while on antibiotics again, ever.again.

Smidge

Deleted User wrote: »

The rumour was created back in the days when syphillus was all he rage. It was created to stop people with the disease going out drinking and riding.

There is only one antibiotic which you shouldn't take with alcohol which is flagyl, but you know yourself, talk to your doctor before you take the advice of someone called whoopsadaisydoodles off the interweb

I'm surprised you no longer go by Dr. Doodles MD

poisonated

As far as I am aware many antibiotics won't have a hugely negative impact but will just not work if you drink. Therefore, it would interrupt the antibiotic cycle. This is not to be taken as medical advice or anything like that.

If I'm sick enough to be on antibios I'm sick enough to not be out drinkin