Should I refrain from drinking alcohol whilst on antibiotics? If I do drink alcohol and antibiotics, how long before/after should I take the medication?
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You should ideally refrain from drinking while on antibiotics. This isn't because the alcohol makes the antibiotics ineffective, but some kinds of antibiotics really make you ill if you also drink alcohol. Since you don't mention which antibiotic you are taking, I would simply advise you to look it up — not "antibiotics" in general, but the particular ones you're using.
If you do decide to drink because there are no known drug interactions between alcohol and your antibiotics, you should still keep your drinking moderate. You're dealing with an infection and you need to be as healthy as you can to treat that.
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