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Can you drink alcohol with bactrim (sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim) antibiotics?

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Unwise:: Very likely to make you sick. http://www.upmchealthplan.com/newsletters/expanded_druginteractions.html.

Dr Krauser agreed

Answered 4/9/2019

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