Wednesday, February 22, 2012

And 81% believed that alcohol may stop ...

Another medical myth is seen in the latest issue of British Medical Journal. The idea that alcohol should be avoided when taking antibiotics is widespread, according to a survey of British patients. It also appeared frequently in the Google search on the Internet. A group of researchers led by J. Lwanga and his colleagues at the Department of genitourinary medicine GuyBЂ ™ and St. ThomasBЂ ™ Hospital in London found that no grounds for this belief and are not contraindications listed on antibiotics in the British National Form. However, the researchers showed that 72% of patients treated at the clinic they believed that drinking alcohol during the antibiotics would make them sick. And 81% believed that alcohol may stop the antibiotics to work properly. Despite the prevalence of these incorrect assumptions, the study found that they rarely brought people to skip antibiotics to drink. Lwanga and colleagues could only guess about its findings. BЂњProhibition alcohol in people receiving treatment for sexually transmitted diseases is a recognized historical fact and may be punitive origin. BЂ "


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The first two Rapid Response (electronic letters to the editor) in this survey is justified to avoid alcohol for people who take antibiotics, sexually transmitted diseases. One doctor wrote that sexual abstinence is necessary before antibiotic therapy was completed. However, disinhibiting effects of alcohol consumption, especially binge drinking can lead people to ignore the strattera 25mg standard advice about sexual abstinence. Mariann Naples Medical Center Consumersb ©.

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