Alcohol should not be consumed for 24 hours after taking cefixime. Usually, you should not drink alcohol until after 7 days of taking cefixime, if you drink alcohol within a short period of time, you may experience disulfiram-like reaction, which usually occurs within 5-40 minutes after exposure to alcohol, such as facial flushing, conjunctival congestion, respiratory distress, nausea, precordial pain and other clinical manifestations. Cefixime belongs to the cephalosporin, in taking cefixime, you can not drink alcohol within a week, disulfiram-like reaction in the slower metabolism of the population will last for a week. In addition to this it is also not allowed to consume other drinks containing alcohol. Cephalosporin antibiotics should not be consumed for more than 7 days after discontinuation of the drug, and in case of disulfiram-like reactions, medical attention should be sought and relevant measures should be taken to intervene.