When prescribing antibiotics, doctors often ask patients to refrain from alcohol during treatment. We checked how much this recommendation relates to all antibiotics without exception.

Some experts are categorical declare On the inadmissibility of the combination of antibiotics and alcohol, citing appropriate examples of side effects. Other experts Markthat if there are no such consequences, then the treatment will still become less effective. Commenting on the problem in the media, doctors are usually limited to the general word “antibiotics”, although their varieties exist Hundreds. Is the incompatibility with alcohol their class characteristics?

There are two bikes about the origin of this order. According to one Of these, during the Second World War, Penicillin was not enough in the British army, so it was mined to re -use from urine those who were treated with an antibiotic. In the infirmary, patients were allowed to drink a little beer, because of which it became more difficult to obtain pure penicillin. Another bike says: Penicillin was actively used in the middle of the last century to treat sexually transmitted diseases. Doctors insisted that their wards do not drink alcohol with an antibiotic, since a drunk person is more inclined to enter into random and unprotected sexual contacts and, as a result, increase the probability of re -infection. Both stories of serious confirmation are not found.

From a chemical point of view, alcoholic beverages are much less diverse than antibiotics. Therefore, in a situation where during the course of treatment you were invited, for example, for a birthday, you should not think about the number of champagne glasses, from which "there will be nothing." It is not so important, you will drink wine, vodka, cocktails or beer - ethyl alcohol and products of its processing will still enter the reaction with the antibiotic. It is necessary to pay attention to substances that enter the body as a medicine-they can interact with alcohol differently.

In 2013, on BBC was published article Claudia Hammond about whether alcohol and antibiotics can be combined. In two years, material Reprinted "Russian BBC service" and other Domestic media, providing publications with comments on Russian doctors. Hammond explained: “myth” about the incompatibility of alcohol and antibiotics should be dispelled, because many patients prefer to skip the drug, and not gatherings in a bar with friends, which is why the effectiveness of treatment can significantly decrease. According to the author of the publication, the vast majority of popular antibiotics in combination with alcohol do not lead to side effects.

However, both Hammond and Russian experts admit that even among the most often prescribed antibiotics there are those that are poorly combined with alcohol and can cause headaches, dizziness, shortness of breath, allergic reactions and other troubles. This, in particular, is based on one of the methods of treatment for alcohol dependence - the drug Disulfir is introduced into the patient’s body, after drinking alcohol, he feels bad and later refuses such drinks. Also, alcohol is also poorly combined, for example, thinidazole, linenesolid, erythromycin and antibiotics from the cephalosporins group (for example, cefotetan).

The most important thing in assessing how dangerous it is to drink during the course of taking antibiotics is to determine what kind of antibiotic it is. Information about its (not) compatibility with alcohol can be clarified in the instructions for the drug. Another way is to check tablecompiled by the authoritative medical online encyclopedia drugs.com. This resource contains information on the interaction of alcohol and various antibiotics, and some of them really almost do not respond to ethyl alcohol. At the same time, it is still worth remembering: both alcohol and antibiotics are the load on the liver, and when combined, this load is noticeably intensifying. Do not forget that alcohol can provoke a decrease in immunity, sleep disturbance and other minor troubles with which the body weakened by the disease copes much worse than a healthy one.