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doxycycline and alcohol

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15-Mar-2004 00:14
by: jiveturkey

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doxycycline and alcohol

Can you drink alcohol while taking doxycycline? I've heard it's an antibiotic and I know that with other antibiotics, they lose their effectiveness when you drink.

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15-Mar-2004 01:14
by: Chrisyboy

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Drinking is fine with doxycycline. The whole "can't drink on antibiotics" is exagerated as it only refers to two types out of hundreds.

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15-Mar-2004 02:59
by: dotravel

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Registered: 30/01/04

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The label say's you can't. But I never had a problem. But perhaps you shouldn't wash it down with alcohol.
But then again I havn't bothered to tale mossie stuff for many trips/years.

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15-Mar-2004 06:53
by: nutraxfornerves

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If you are a very heavy drinker, the effectiveness of doxycycline may indeed be reduced.

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Alcoholics may have reduced blood levels of doxycycline. This is because in this group of people alcohol stimulates the liver to metabolise the doxycycline. Alcohol has not been found to have this effect in people who drink moderately.

"Moderately" usually covers most travellers, however, someone who likes to really "party hearty" during a long trip may develop that liver deal that makes your body get rid of the doxy too fast. What happens is that when you feed it a fiar amount of alcohol daily, your body switches to a Plan B that enables it to get rid of lots of alcohol faster. Unfortuantely, Plan B also gets rid of doxy faster--and doxy is already rather rapidly metabolized.. You have to have a steady level of doxy in your blood all the time for it to be effective. That's why you need to take it daily at the same time of day.

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25-Mar-2004 05:05
by: elucida

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Registered: 10/04/03

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the 'don't drink' advice (apart from the couple of types where it does reduce effectiveness) is given because the effects of alcohol are greatly increased when on ABs. so you might have just one drink, but feel like you've had 5. or drive while not technically over the limit, but incapacitated. AFAIK.

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25-Mar-2004 16:39
by: gengis

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#4 those sstaaatements aare really not true. anatibiotics do not increase the high of alcohol in fact can decrease them as liver clearance can be increased as pointed out aalready

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