Is alcohol banned with all antiboitics?

[NotActuallyAMum]

My DP is on Amoxycillin for a lung infection. He's much better than he was and would like a few drinks later. His doctor didn't say he couldn't drink and it doesn't say anything on the label, or on the information leaflet

Surely he would have been told in one way or another if he couldn't drink?

Found this on netdoctor:

Question

I have been given a ten day course of amoxicillin for tonsillitis. I would like to know how much alcohol I can drink and what could be the side effects.

Answer

I do hope that you are starting to feel better from your tonsillitis. Ten days is quite a long course of antibiotics to take so I suspect that you have been quite poorly with your throat. There are no particular side effects to drinking alcohol with amoxicillin, which is a penicillin based antibiotic. Like all antibiotics, it is best taken on an empty stomach and I normally suggest that it is taken some time before drinking alcohol so that there is plenty of time for the antibiotic to get absorbed from the stomach. The main side effects of penicillin-based antibiotics are nausea and diarrhoea and as these can also be the side effects of an overdose of alcohol, it can sometimes be difficult to tell which side effects are which! For this reason, I usually suggest that people keep their alcohol to the minimum when on medication. Get better soon!

Thanks very much airy hadn't heard of netdoctor, I'll remember that

He's had no side effects at all so that sounds like a yes to me

Thanks again

Amoxycillin is ok, the one to really avoid alcohol with is metronidazole - not nice.

Thanks MrsBadger

I knew there was one that can make you really ill if you drink, that must be it

I was on one for cystitis but I cannot remember the name of it. I had two glasses of cava and was begging DH to just kill me the next morning coz I felt so bad.

oooeeerr...

Think I'll let him decide for himself, he can't blame me then