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Effects of smoking/drinking while taking antibiotics?

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Dr. Tony Ho answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Depends: It depends on the antibiotic; for instance, Metronidazole has a horrible interaction with alcohol. Smoking and drinking in general are not good ideas, especially when infected.

Dr Sajid agreed

Answered 1/12/2017

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