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Can Alcohol Be Consumed While Taking Antabuse?
Question: What food, drinks, and other products with alcohol in them should I avoid while taking Antibuse 500mg? I am a new user and need to get this information
I am an alcoholic, wanting to reform my life
I am an alcoholic, wanting to reform my life
Brief Answer:
following is the information
Detailed Answer:
Dear,
Welcome to HCM.
Do not take Antabuse if you have consumed alcohol within the past 12 hours. Do not drink alcohol while taking disulfiram and for up to 14 days after you stop taking this medicine. Reactions may occur from drinking alcohol for several weeks after you have stopped taking disulfiram.
You should not use Antabuse if you are allergic to disulfiram, or if:
you have recently taken metronidazole; or
you have consumed any foods or products that contain alcohol (mouthwash, cough medicine, cooking wine or vinegar, certain desserts, aftershave, cologne, perfume, antiperspirant, antiseptic astringent skin products, hair dyes others).
Check the label to see if any food or medicine product contains alcohol. Ask your pharmacist if you have questions.
Avoid contact with non-consumable products that may contain alcohol: paint thinners, solvents, stains, lacquers and others. As the alcohol may enter as fumes.
Tell your doctor (or dentist) that you are taking disulfiram before taking an antibiotic or before having surgery.
The following are unpleasant symptoms that occur when alcohol is consumed while on antibuse therapy:
These include flushing of the face, headache, nausea, vomiting, chest pain, weakness, blurred vision, mental confusion, sweating, choking, breathing difficulty, and anxiety.
In severe reaction and Call your doctor at once if you have:
eye pain or sudden vision loss;
confusion, unusual thoughts or behavior; or
liver problems--nausea, upper stomach pain, itching, tired feeling, loss of appetite, dark urine, clay-colored stools, jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes).
Seizures.
Hope it satisfies your query.
Revert back for more information.
Regards,
Dr Pankaj Borade
following is the information
Detailed Answer:
Dear,
Welcome to HCM.
Do not take Antabuse if you have consumed alcohol within the past 12 hours. Do not drink alcohol while taking disulfiram and for up to 14 days after you stop taking this medicine. Reactions may occur from drinking alcohol for several weeks after you have stopped taking disulfiram.
You should not use Antabuse if you are allergic to disulfiram, or if:
you have recently taken metronidazole; or
you have consumed any foods or products that contain alcohol (mouthwash, cough medicine, cooking wine or vinegar, certain desserts, aftershave, cologne, perfume, antiperspirant, antiseptic astringent skin products, hair dyes others).
Check the label to see if any food or medicine product contains alcohol. Ask your pharmacist if you have questions.
Avoid contact with non-consumable products that may contain alcohol: paint thinners, solvents, stains, lacquers and others. As the alcohol may enter as fumes.
Tell your doctor (or dentist) that you are taking disulfiram before taking an antibiotic or before having surgery.
The following are unpleasant symptoms that occur when alcohol is consumed while on antibuse therapy:
These include flushing of the face, headache, nausea, vomiting, chest pain, weakness, blurred vision, mental confusion, sweating, choking, breathing difficulty, and anxiety.
In severe reaction and Call your doctor at once if you have:
eye pain or sudden vision loss;
confusion, unusual thoughts or behavior; or
liver problems--nausea, upper stomach pain, itching, tired feeling, loss of appetite, dark urine, clay-colored stools, jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes).
Seizures.
Hope it satisfies your query.
Revert back for more information.
Regards,
Dr Pankaj Borade
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