No alcohol on antibiotics

[YellowWave]

I have a cupboard of bottles of spirits at home. I might sound like and alcoholic. I don't drink every day or every evenings. Some evenings I do like to have a drink. I do it more so for relaxation or for meditation.

Like for example, when I do an online grocery shop, my mother likes to sit down with me and she wants me to shop for her too. She has a different way of shopping online. She wants me to trawl through the special offer pages and she gets agitated if the stuff she wants isn't on offer. Honestly, it's a big headache with her and I can't get through the process without a drink and a vape. If I was still smoking, I would have a pack of fags gone.

I work as a nanny. Some days are better than others. I'm having one of them days at work. I'm expected to be a miracle worker for this family.

I'm stuck in work with a child who is off form. The parents are doing what they do best. Wanting to be a childless couple dumping the load on me and expecting me to be a miracle worker. They have a party at the weekend so have chosen to continue as normal ignoring their child's cough. They have a lot of people coming to a party. We'll good luck to them but I won't be there and I won't be involved.

It's just one of them days where I badly need a drink. My day is still not over. I was running out the door to work this morning and my mother wants me to do online shopping for her tonight. This time to a pharmacy. Not for meds but for beauty creams. It doesn't matter what time of the night I might be allowed home at. It could be 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 at night. If I want a cup of tea, I will clearly have to pay rent monies to my employer and to my mother.

I badly need a drink when I'm allowed to get home but I'm on antibiotics for an dental abscess. The instructons says no alcohol. What do I do

I'm not the one with covid symptoms. It's one of their children with symptoms and another one of the or children has a milder cold.

But you've been in contact with these children? I'd be wary? I'd def get advice

@FizzAfterSix

On the few occasions I’ve taken antibiotics I’ve been fine with a glass or 2 or champagne. It depends on your tolerance and constitution. Calling OP because she is gasping for a drink after a hellish day is a hysterical over reaction. Only on Mumsnet.

OP is on one of the only antibiotics that you genuinely cannot drink on. She would vomit immediately.

Do some research.

If its Metronidazole do not do it. Seriously. It reacts violently with even a little alcohol. Someone on here was projectile vomiting and turned out it was due to the alcohol in her mouthwash. She was swallowing a little when she used it and as soon as she stopped, the sickness stopped.

You will feel a million times worse if you drink on it. Amoxicillin you get away with it but Metronidazole you cant, it makes you so ill.

Don't. Just don't. Unless you like puking. A lot.

I will admit I forgot about the not drinking thing and had several glasses of wine one night at the end of my course of Metronidazole.

I was completely fine, so I guess it doesn't affect everyone.

I think metronidazole can actually be used to treat alcohol addiction as it solicits such a bad reaction. Having said that I have inadvertently drunk alcohol whilst taking it and had no reaction at all so I don’t think it affects everyone. Not sure i’d want to take the risk though. x

@YellowWave

I'm not the one with covid symptoms. It's one of their children with symptoms and another one of the or children has a milder cold. They are sticking their head in the sand and turning a blind eye and saying its not covid. They weren't tested so I don't know how they know. They have a party at the weekend and are wishing it's not covid.

But if you've been in contact with them, you need to self-isolate for 14 days now.

Just don’t do it. I finished metronidazole on the Tuesday morning, went out on the Thursday night and vomited like something out of Alien. A huge tube of black tar shot out at head height and hit the mirror and the cistern. It carried on all night and the next day and it also sent me loopy, proper crackers. I didn’t feel right until the Monday. Uggghhh

I remember taking that antibiotic and the Dr saying not to even have a chocolate liqueur!

If you are criticising the parents for not considering their child may have covid given their symptoms, then surely you must consider you have been exposed it also? So you should be self-isolating? And you have to go on Mumsnet to query whether you can drink alcohol when taking medication which states "Do not drink Alcohol"?

Bloody hell, I'm glad I'm not paying you to look after my children.

If you've been in close contact with someone with symptoms you should be self isolating for the next 14 days

You need to self-isolate if: "someone in your support bubble has symptoms or has tested positive"
This is from the NHS website.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/when-to-self-isolate-and-what-to-do/

If you don’t think you can manage without a drink then you need to seek help for that.
And if the job is so awful then leave.