Time：2023-02-06 06:56:01 source：psychiatricethics.com author：Mental disorder Read：861次

Can I drink alcohol while taking medication for depression?

During depression medication? When a doctor prescribes some antidepressant or anti-anxiety drugs to a patient, he will also explain that he should try not to drink alcohol while taking the drug. Why is it not appropriate to drink alcohol while taking antidepressant? Alcohol itself is a psychoactive substance, which has an impact on the patient's spirit, can inhibit the function of the cerebral cortex, and may have a synergistic effect with drugs such as tranquilizers. After drinking, it will produce double depression, resulting in respiratory depression and enhanced sedation. , and alcohol can interfere with the function of brain cells, affecting the treatment effect. Many patients with stable depression may experience relapse due to heavy drinking. It also has a related effect on liver metabolism. Most antidepressant and anxiolytic drugs require liver metabolism, and alcohol contained in alcohol can enhance the toxicity of tricyclic antidepressants, which may affect liver function. When you drink alcohol after taking the medicine, alcohol and antidepressants will meet in the blood, manifesting as nausea and vomiting, chest pain, myocardial infarction, acute heart failure, dyspnea, headache, flushing and other symptoms. Combined use can aggravate the hypotension reaction. It can delay the catabolism of ethanol, the concentration of antidepressants decreases significantly when drinking, and the blood concentration will recover after stopping drinking. In short, you will feel that the whole person is not good. Can I drink alcohol as soon as I stop the drug? The longer the interval between drinking and taking antidepressants, the better, and the lower the incidence of reactions. But you can't drink alcohol immediately after stopping the drug, because you didn't take the drug today, but the drug in your body from yesterday is still there, and the drug content in your blood can still be detected today. Many antidepressants will remain in the body for more than 24 hours, or some antidepressants take half a month to be completely eliminated from your body, so you can't drink alcohol immediately after stopping the drug. However, for those who are already addicted to drinking, it is impossible for them to quit completely at once, so it is recommended to reduce the amount of alcohol to one-half or one-third of the original amount, and then try to quit. If you really can't quit, you can only reduce it as much as possible. During the period of taking antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs, in addition to drinking alcohol, it is forbidden to smoke, drink coffee, climb, drive, swim, and work at heights to avoid adverse reactions and accidents. .

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