Medical terminology will burn you to the mind of any uninitiated person. In addition to recipes written in Latin, doctors often operate with completely incomprehensible phrases, suggesting that any patient will understand these tricky terms. Among the absolutely incomprehensible phenomena is the additive effect, but let's try to figure out what kind of concept it is.
What does the additive effect of
mean? How can we understand what such a complex concept means? In fact, everything is quite simple. The additive effect is the total effect of all drugs and procedures prescribed by the doctor, in order to achieve the maximum health outcome. For example, the use of nitroglycerin in conjunction with beta-blockers in ischemic heart disease or aminazine in combination with drugs for anesthesia is widespread.
Each of these drugs, taken separately, will undoubtedly lead to a positive result in treatment, however, side effects of the drug will also occur.
Nevertheless, everything should be approached with a reasonable share of common sense. The additive effect is undoubtedly considered a godsend in the medical world, however, and this beneficial interaction can bring sad consequences. It is about the mutual influence of drugs and alcoholic beverages.
Drugs and alcohol
If in traditional medicine, the additive effect of medications is used exclusively for the benefit of the patient, then when taking medications together with alcoholic beverages, no positive aspects of this symbiosis could be detected. Scientists, for many years dealing with the issues of combining the properties of various substances, have successfully proved the potentiating effect of alcohol on medications. It turns out that ethanol can so intensify the action of a safe preparation at first glance that it becomes for the organism not useful, but extremely dangerous.
The question immediately comes to mind - why not use this effect of alcohol for purely positive purposes? If alcohol can enhance the effect of the drug, it is possible to take a lower dosage of the drug and thus save the budget?
The answer is categorical - this can not be done in any case, and that's why:
- The additive effect of some drugs with alcohol can lead to death.
- Part of the drugs completely loses the therapeutic effect, if you drink a pill with alcohol.
- A number of drugs when combined with ethanol leads to irreversible health effects, disability and disability of the patient.
How
is manifested Sudden bad state of health on the basis of taking a serious dose of alcohol will not surprise anyone a little - you will think, dizzy or vomited. Many write off this effect on the effect of alcohol. And it is rare when a person who has gone through recollects that literally in the morning he took a medicine for a headache or a strong sedative. And sure enough the drunken brain will not be able to realize the fact that the fault of all is the union of alcohol and medicine.
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A blissful sleep that came after a sleeping pill, washed with a glass of light wine, can be the last in a person's life. This is, of course, the most sad scenario. And how do you like the effect of pregnancy as a result of reducing the contraceptive properties of oral contraceptives after drinking with friends and the sexual intercourse that has happened? The variant, frankly, is more preferable than the lethal outcome, but for the negative consequences for the development of the future child or the mother's psyche, which is now faced with a difficult choice - no less sad.
It is impossible to anticipate in advance how the medication will work and whether it will work at all, after a person has drunk alcohol, it is impossible. It is important to understand that not always the additive effect of alcohol and drugs can immediately manifest as any changes in the state of health or human behavior, so it is so difficult to catch the development of complications at an early stage.
Consequences of
Most people are very calm about the combination of drugs and alcohol, without even suspecting that there are groups of drugs that are strongly discouraged from mixing with alcohol because of serious health consequences.
These include:
- Sleeping Pills. The additive effect in the use of alcohol is expressed in the intensification of drowsiness, impaired coordination, the development of hallucinations, in some cases - the depression of the respiratory center and the death of the patient.
- Antibiotics. In this case, the combination of antibiotics with alcohol will lead to a weakening of the effect of drugs and the development of resistance of microbes to the action of drugs. Treatment will be ineffective. A number of antibiotics causes a disulfiram-like reaction, that is, blocks the splitting in the body of alcohol. This causes instant intoxication: fever, severe headache, vomiting, sweating, tachycardia may start, pressure jumps. In this situation, urgent hospitalization is needed.
- Analgesics. Additive action is expressed in the depression of the nervous system, the appearance of hallucinations, stopping breathing. Drugs that reduce blood sugar. One-time use with alcohol can provoke the development of insulin coma due to a sharp drop in sugar levels.
- Drugs based on caffeine - a jump in pressure and hypertensive crisis.
- The union of alcohol and diuretics will cause a drop in pressure and fainting.
- Medications for the heart and vascular system. Alcohol has the ability to dramatically expand, and then narrow the blood vessels, so in combination with a similar effect of drugs, the result can be death from acute heart failure.
- Anticoagulants - a joint reception with alcohol provokes the development of internal bleeding, hemorrhage to the brain.
As you can see, almost all groups of drugs have negative consequences if you mix tablets with alcoholic beverages. Naturally, not always the consequences can be so deplorable, however, to put on their health such experiments a normal person is unlikely to agree.