…I’m taking antibiotics.
This was the response I got when I offered to buy a colleague a drink at a Christmas outing recently.
Many people think that if you are taking any antibiotic you should avoid your favourite tipple.
Nice...but not with metronidazole (Credit commons.wikimedia.org)
In fact, this advice really only applies to the antibiotic, metronidazole. This is used to treat a number different of infections including dental infections in patients who are allergic to penicillin. If you knock back some alcohol while taking metronidazole you may experience palpitations; facial flushing; (which may lead your drinking companions to think you’ve gone a bit too far); nausea and vomiting (ditto) or a splitting headache (which may lead you to think that you’ve gone too far).
