What happens if you combine medication and alcohol? How alcohol affects the action of different groups of drugs, why the treatment can not drink alcohol?
It is important to figure out what kind of drug and what kind of alcohol is it, two glasses of wine and a bottle of vodka is a different thing.
Excessive consumption of alcohol changes the action of the drug in an unexpected way, most of these interactions are currently not understood. The following are the drugs, the combination of which even small amounts of alcohol can end very badly.
Psychotropic drugs
Antidepressants, antipsychotics, tranquilizers and antihistamines previous generation, alcohol significantly enhances the action of these drugs. As a result of the multiplied manifestations of all side effects, ranging from mild drowsiness to full of dimness of consciousness. The most dangerous to carry out such experiments will be for people with dementia, epilepsy and endogenous mental diseases. The combination of alcohol and antidepressants results in dire consequences for people with depression, they tend to a conscious combination of medication and alcohol to reduce feelings of anxiety, experts call this process substance abuse and insist on his immediate recovery.
Painkillers
Most of this group of drugs hepatotoxic, the same applies to alcohol. The human liver is capable of processing no more than 6-8 grams of acetaminophen per day, and the reception nimesulida longer than 15 days provokes acute alcoholic liver disease.
The liver is suffering from the negative effects of pain medication, concurrent use of alcohol puts her under even more severe blow.
If a person, rarely consume alcohol, will feel a headache and take a pill of paracetamol, nothing wrong with his liver does not happen, but for the alcohol abusing person, the same situation can lead to unpredictable and irreversible consequences.
Antibiotics
The combination of alcohol with antibiotics is not as dangerous as in the case with the previous groups of drugs. Alcohol is forbidden for use with drugs precipitates the action that is causing an aversion to alcohol for the rest of antibiotics is formally more appropriate word “limit”. However, doctors do not recommend to experiment on his body.
Vasoconstrictors
On the Internet spread information about what the combination of alcohol with vasoconstrictor drugs increases blood pressure, but practice shows that the effect will be counterproductive. Themselves vasoconstrictor drops have a strong effect on vascular centre, and a decreasing pressure, alcoholic drinks can increase the effect, that is, the lower the pressure even lower.
Antihistamines
Alcohol can cause allergic reaction, but it is uncommon. More often, alcohol increases the body’s response to another allergen. With antihistamines of new generation alcohol does not interact, with regard to the means of the old generation, combine them with alcohol categorically it is impossible, as the body will respond to more or lesser degree of drowsiness.
Insulin and drugs to lower sugar
Alcohol use in diabetes increases the likelihood of hypoglycemia, that is, reducing the level of glucose in the blood. It does not depend on people taking drugs against diabetes. It should be noted that diabetics with experience allow themselves to drink alcohol, but that goes without consequences only for those who learn how to very accurately calculate dosages of medications.
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