Is it okay to drink alcohol while on antibiotics?

to clear up what someone earlier posted...

what marley said IS correct. alcohol by interfering with the enzyme breakdown, less of then antibiotic is digested at the time you take it, meaning the dose is less effective because it may not reach peak level (the amount of a drug needed to have an effect)...which can mean that the infection can have time to recover...also, if a greater amount of the drug is present in your blood stream for a longer period, the next time you take the drug, the dose may be higher than intended, and cause more side effects. This would especially be the case with shorter, more potent doses, like once a day for five days, vs. 3 times a day for ten.

there are about 5 different kinds of antibiotics you should not take with alcohol or it could be toxic, most other ones will only increase side effects...basically, the smart thing is to not drink when you are sick because it takes longer for you to recover 8-|

IS IT ALRIGHT TO DRINK WHILE ON RATIO-ACLAVULANATE?

I drank on antibiotics...I got SO WASTED, couldn't remember a thing the next day, and stayed sick for longer. I'm the type of person that ALWAYS remembers the next day, and whole chunks of my night were totally and completely gone because of it. It definitely f**ks you up and I'd suggest not to do it. Like my evening is now legendary with my friends because of how big of a fool I made of myself....so yeah. Try and hold off.

if you took antibiodics the ngiht before u want to drink... can it still effect u if u drink the night after?


cuz i had tooken a antibiodic for a bladder infection.. almost 24 hrs before i had my first drink... but i also had a reaction to my antibiodic the night before.. n was rlly sick to my stomach wit chills... n brought up some of the pill.. so im scared to drink more if it can cause something

I am on my last Day of Azithromycin (Zpak) and I am having one beer, I'm sure everything is going to be fine.

man you guys are lightweigts, a real man drinks no matter what. like take me for example, i rule!

i'm taking antibiotics and have a few shots in the evenings.. no problems here.

"eat a cracker for christ's sake" ftw!

Sounds a lot like psychological stuff to me.. all medication carries the 'DO NOT CONSUME ALCOHOL WHEN USING THIS MEDICATION' type of warning. If you convince yourself that it's going to harm you if you drink, chances are you will have a phantom side effect if you do.. that's my opinion. So if you are worried, don't drink.. Otherwise, as with everything, drink with restraint.

Quit being pussies. Im railing lines of amox/k clav 875mg with shots back to back.

Not really but I am quite drunk and have taken 2 of the pills today with no problems! They seem to be fine with alcohol, unless your a p***y.

"eat a cracker for christs sake"

So I read over this last night before I began drinking and thought, well I never really get hungover after drinking so if the antibiotics do anything it couldn't be too bad. Hah! boy was I wrong. I had a great night of drinking, but at about 6am, i woke up with THE WORST HANGOVER OF MY LIFEE!!!! I got out of bed and my entire body ached, the world felt like it was going a million miles per hour, my head hurt, I blacked out and literally fell to my floor.... you get the point. Lets just say that if you wanna go through what I have just described and you are prepared to have a stupidly painful hangover all of the following day, then knock yourself out... I am NEVER doing that again... lesson learned.

-D

I went out drinking one night for my friends 30th birthday while on an antibiotic for mild bronchitis and woke up the next morning feeling awful...thought nothing of it, just thought I was hung over now as well as being sick (which I know was my own fault but I figured I would pay the price for my friends 30th). About a week later my boyfriend took me to the hospital (and I don't remember this) and I ended up having to stay for there for the week of thanksgiving with pneumonia. The doctor told me my blood oxygen levels Were so low that my body was pretty much suffocating. I was so out of it that I don't even remember my boyfriend taking me to the ER. Before he brought me I slept for about 5 days without eating anything but cough drops and hot tea. The reason the antibiotics didn't get rid of the bronchitis and it progressed to pneumonia is because I went out drinking for my friends birthday. I was on day 8 of a 10 day prescription and the doctor said it doesn't matter that I was almost finished with my course of antibiotics because while alcohol doesn't directly cause the antibiotics to not be effective, it does lower your bodies ability to fight and get better because the alcohol is metabolized in a similar way as the medicine, which means that the alcohol and the antibiotics are competing with each other. He also said that not all antibiotics are metabolized in the same way so this may not apply to you. This really scared me and I am not one to get freaked out by this kind of stuff (I had a cough for a few weeks before going to the doctor and being diagnosed with bronchitis because I thought it was just a cold and i was fine). Anyway my point is just that I wouldnt have had to spend thanksgiving in the hospital while my whole family was having a great time in Florida if I didn't go out drinking that one night...I was feeling so much better and then I was soooo much worse! I still have an annoying cough and dont feel 100% and it is march! I first started coughing and not feeling well in the beginning of October...I am so mad at myself for having to go out drinking that night when I was feeling so much better because the consequences suck!

I'm currently wasted and just took my second amoxicillin of the night. Ive felt like a champ all night.

I drank some vodka, then took my last of my 4 pills for the day. I ended up in a coma, and intubation. When I came out of it, I was told by the doc " you almost died. "

I wasn't so lucky....I did die.

I have taken antibiotics with whiskey for years

I have never had any adverse side effects to speak of

Although I wouldnt recommend it

DRINK AWAY!!!!!

the antibiotics always work for me in the fight against skin and lung infections

I work underground and both of these aflictions come with the job

zythromax works for me

THE PINK PANTHER