Drinking alcohol while taking antihypertensive drugs such as reserpine, captopril and nifedipine can cause vasodilation and lead to hypotensive shock, which can be life-threatening in severe cases.
Ethanol can dilate blood vessels, inhibit sympathetic nerve and vascular motor center, and weaken myocardial contractility. If you take antihypertensive drugs after drinking, small blood vessels will be more dilated, blood volume will be further reduced, blood pressure will plummet, and postural hypotension or syncope will occur.
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Do not drink alcohol after taking the following drugs:
1, cold medicine
Most cold medicines contain acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol), which is used to treat colds and fever and relieve pain. However, acetaminophen will produce a toxic metabolite in the process of biotransformation in vivo, which needs to be combined with protective factors such as reduced glutathione in vivo to reduce toxicity.
2, hypoglycemic drugs
When taking hypoglycemic drugs, you should not drink alcohol at the same time, such as glibenclamide, glibenclamide, tolbutamide, etc., because alcohol can enhance the efficacy. When they meet, it may lead to hypoglycemia shock, life-threatening and lactic acidemia.
3. Sleeping pills
Some sleeping pills with sedative and hypnotic effects have a certain inhibitory effect on breathing and heartbeat, and so does alcohol. The combination of the two can produce double inhibition, which makes people slow down, sleepy or even unconscious, and the respiratory and circulatory centers will also be inhibited, leading to slow breathing, blood pressure drop, shock and even respiratory arrest and death.
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