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When Is Alcohol To Be Consumed After Clonidine Intake?
Question: I took a clonadine for my anxiety and BP. Was also planning on drinking alchol. Whats the most i can safely drink on it and when do effects of clonadine wearoff
Brief Answer:
No known interactions
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Clonidine has a half-life of 12 to 16 hours. The half-life of a medication is the time it takes for the amount of drug in the body to decrease by half.
It takes 3 to 5 half-lives for a medication to be mostly eliminated.
This means that the medication should be eliminated in approximately 36 hours to 3 1/2 days. Though it takes this long for it to completely eliminated, the levels are would be decreasing all of the time.
From about 12 hours, the levels would start to halve.
There are no known interactions between these medications according to the professional drug interaction checker medscape.
I hope this helps, feel free to ask any other questions.
Regards,
Dr. Michelle Gibson James, General & Family Physician
No known interactions
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Clonidine has a half-life of 12 to 16 hours. The half-life of a medication is the time it takes for the amount of drug in the body to decrease by half.
It takes 3 to 5 half-lives for a medication to be mostly eliminated.
This means that the medication should be eliminated in approximately 36 hours to 3 1/2 days. Though it takes this long for it to completely eliminated, the levels are would be decreasing all of the time.
From about 12 hours, the levels would start to halve.
There are no known interactions between these medications according to the professional drug interaction checker medscape.
I hope this helps, feel free to ask any other questions.
Regards,
Dr. Michelle Gibson James, General & Family Physician
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
So dont believe this?
Brief Answer:
Usually, defer to prof medical sites, if concerned would have to use halflife
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
It is understandable to concerned re possible interactions, I would be as well. If you want to make sure that you are not in the minority that have side effects then you can use the half life mentioned above- It has a elimination half life of 12 hours. The levels would halve at this point, though they may start declining slightly before this point.
The majority of persons do not have any effect according to medscape which is the professional site that is used by doctors, you can use it yourself if you put in drug interactions in your search engine. It should come up as one of your search results.
I normally use only professional/doctor-directed sites as a source of info.
Hope I have answered your query.
Regards,
Dr. Michelle Gibson James, General & Family Physician
Usually, defer to prof medical sites, if concerned would have to use halflife
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
It is understandable to concerned re possible interactions, I would be as well. If you want to make sure that you are not in the minority that have side effects then you can use the half life mentioned above- It has a elimination half life of 12 hours. The levels would halve at this point, though they may start declining slightly before this point.
The majority of persons do not have any effect according to medscape which is the professional site that is used by doctors, you can use it yourself if you put in drug interactions in your search engine. It should come up as one of your search results.
I normally use only professional/doctor-directed sites as a source of info.
Hope I have answered your query.
Regards,
Dr. Michelle Gibson James, General & Family Physician
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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