Thread by @ChiefPharmacst

Many Health practitioners will always tell you, NEVER take 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐲𝐥 & 𝐀𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐡𝐨𝐥 together within 3 days (72 hours) apart but never tell you why.

So it's my duty as a Pharmacist to reveal the "Chemistry" behind it.

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FLAGYL itself is an Alcohol with Nitrogens attached to it.
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2-(2-Methyl-5-nitro-1H-imidazol-1-yl) ETHANOL

The added Moieties to the ETHANOL makes it effective on ANAEROBIC BACTERIA.

A Quick Remainder that ALCOHOL can be used as DISINFECTANT against microbes,

which kill than via DENATURATION.

FLAGYL blocks the effects of this Alcohol dehydrogenase (the enzymes that metabolises Alcohol).

As a result, a person on Flagyl cannot fully digest alcohol.
Hence, drinking can cause ACETALDEHYDE (toxic) to build up in the bloodstream.

Because of this, people who drink alcohol, while taking Flagyl may experience a DISULFIRAM-LIKE REACTION.

DISULFIRAM REACTIONS mimic HANGOVER-LIKE symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, flushing, dizziness, throbbing headache, chest and abdominal discomfort.

Those symptoms you get from alcohol OVERDOSE when clubbing.

So please, NEVER take Flagyl & Alcohol together within 3 days.

I repeat, NEVER take Flagyl & Alcohol together within 3 days.

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