How to save yourself by taking cephalosporin and drinking

If alcohol is consumed while taking cephalosporin, if less alcohol is consumed and the patient is asymptomatic, there is generally no problem and no special treatment measures are needed. If more alcohol is consumed and the patient has mild symptoms, such as vomiting and dry mouth, warm milk can be drunk to relieve the symptoms. If the patient has more symptoms, the main focus is to promote the metabolism and excretion of ethanol, and can be treated with rehydration, such as intravenous infusion of glucose solution, vitamin C or removal of ethanol from the stomach by gastric lavage to reduce ethanol absorption, or symptomatic treatment by intravenous dexamethasone or intramuscular naloxone injection. If the patient develops symptoms such as increased heart rate, panic, chest tightness and dyspnea, treatment should be based on oxygen inhalation, and if shock occurs, active resuscitation should be performed. Drinking alcohol is strictly prohibited during taking cephalosporin and other antibiotics, which are prone to disulfiram-like reactions, mainly manifested as facial flushing, blurred vision, conjunctival congestion, violent pulsation of blood vessels in the head and neck, while leading to headache as well as dizziness, sweating, nausea, vomiting, chest pain, myocardial infarction, acute liver injury, respiratory distress, convulsions, dry mouth, etc., which may even lead to death in serious cases. Therefore, it is important to go to the hospital in time when abnormalities occur.