In recent years, there have been many reports of young lives being taken away by cold and flu medication and alcohol consumption, and such incidents have occurred time and again and need to be taken seriously, especially by those who love to drink and are alcoholics. Alcohol can produce adverse reactions with a variety of drugs. 1, cephalosporin drugs and alcohol to kill Whether it is cephalosporin drugs, or cephalosporin antibiotics, cephalosporin anti-inflammatory needles, etc., after use, can not drink alcohol, fear will cause “disulfiram-like reaction”, disulfiram itself is a drug to stop drinking, disulfiram in combination with ethanol can inhibit acetaldehyde dehydrogenase in the liver, so that ethanol in the After oxidation to acetaldehyde in the body, it cannot continue to decompose and oxidize, resulting in a series of reactions due to the accumulation of acetaldehyde in the body. Many drugs have similar effects to disulfiram. If alcohol is consumed after the drug, facial flushing, conjunctival congestion, blurred vision, severe pulsation of the blood vessels in the head and neck or pulsating headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, sweating, dry mouth, chest pain, myocardial infarction, acute heart failure, respiratory distress, acute liver injury, convulsions and death can occur. Especially for people who have cardiovascular underlying diseases themselves, it may be serious enough to cause respiratory depression, heart failure and even death. Therefore, “you should never drink alcohol after taking medication, you should never take medication after drinking”, at least one week after taking medication to get alcohol. 2, sleeping pills and wine to kill many people have sleep disorders, insomnia, may often prepare some sedative sleeping drugs, why after taking can not dip wine? This is because sleeping pills belong to the brain depressants, and alcohol will produce first excitation of the central nervous system of the brain after the inhibitory effect, the two together can produce a double inhibition of the normal activities of the central nervous system, making people unresponsive, drowsy, and even coma, respiratory and circulatory center will also be inhibited, respiratory slowing, blood pressure, shock and even respiratory arrest and death. 3, antihypertensive drugs There are many types of antihypertensive drugs, there are also many types of alcohol, if taking antihypertensive drugs such as reserpine, captopril, drinking will cause the expansion of blood vessels, enhance the effect of antihypertensive drugs, will appear hypotensive shock, in serious cases can be life-threatening. Some antihypertensive drugs such as compound antihypertensive tablets and compound dihydralazine combined with alcohol may also cause a sharp rise in blood pressure. If the wine is wine, it is more likely to happen, this is because the wine contains tyramine, if a large accumulation, will cause significant damage to the body, resulting in dizziness and headache, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, arrhythmia, increased blood pressure and even cerebral hemorrhage. 4, hypoglycemic drugs Diabetic patients should also pay extra attention to the alcohol will stimulate insulin secretion, injection of insulin or oral hypoglycemic drugs, drinking alcohol on an empty stomach, then prone to hypoglycemic reactions. In addition, glucose-lowering drugs like metformin, if mixed with alcohol may increase the risk of lactic acidosis, where lactic acid builds up in the blood, leading to nausea, weakness and other symptoms. It is worth being alert to the fact that such hypoglycemic symptoms manifest as panic, sweating, fatigue and weakness, and even irritability, confusion and multilingualism, which are often masked by drunken reactions and not easily distinguished from intoxication, so that even though severe and persistent hypoglycemia occurs, the patient is often oblivious to it and eventually hypoglycemic shock occurs. If not treated in time, it may lead to irreversible damage to brain tissue and even cause death. 5, psychotropic drugs Psychotropic drugs are mainly antidepressants. Antidepressants and alcohol consumption both slow down the rhythm of the central nervous system and affect the function of the brain and the ability to think. The combination of the two can make people feel sleepy, reduce people’s judgment, physical coordination and reaction time, and can lead to worsening symptoms of depression. For depressed patients taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors, alcohol can also interact with these drugs to raise blood pressure, which is dangerous and therefore requires complete avoidance of alcohol.