Cephalexin and Alcohol
Alcohol doesn’t reduce the effectiveness of most antibiotic treatments. Still, antibiotics such as cephalexin and alcohol can cause related adverse reactions, such as stomach disturbances, vertigo and sleepiness. When you merge antibiotics and alcohol, these adverse reactions may enhance.
On the contrary, in the case of some antibiotics, alcohol can diminish their efficiency.
Antibiotics, such as cephalexin, and alcohol “battle” with each other in their process of allocating enzymes responsible for the chemical processes. Such way, the drug, which is not metabolized in time, causes side effects in the body. Furthermore, continual alcohol use destroys various enzymes, which makes hard antibiotic absorption in general.
The interaction between alcohol and enzymes not only sets back the effect of antibiotics, but metabolizes them into toxic and occasionally lethal components. Examples of the damaging reaction of antibiotics such as cephalexin and alcohol: some of them can cause sickness, vomiting, head problems, and sometimes seizures.
Consuming alcoholic beverages or taking other alcohol-containing preparations (for example, elixirs, cough syrups, tonics, or alcohol-containing injections) while receiving these cephalosporins may cause a variety of negative reactions. These negative reactions may occur if you consume alcohol even several days after you stop taking cephalosporin. These effects usually start within 15 to 30 minutes after you consume alcohol and may not go away for as long as several hours.
Remember that alcohol can decrease your energy and delay how quickly you recover from illness. So, it may be best to keep away from alcohol until you have finished your medications and your condition is improving.