Any good doctor prescribing medication, warn - while taking the drug should not drink alcohol. On the other hand, in pharmacies is a lot of medicinal tinctures of alcohol, sometimes amounting to 60-70 degrees fortress. So why is it that some drugs can be combined with alcohol, and not others? Indeed, in the composition of medicinal tinctures include alcohol as a universal solvent, - said lead researcher GNITS Preventive Medicine Galina Kholmogorova. - But remember, what dose you take tinctures - 5-15 drops per 50 ml of water. And if a person drinks 50 grams of alcohol, agree, the dose is immeasurably higher. So no contradiction here. If you are sick and taking medicines, alcohol should be eliminated entirely. It seriously affects the liver enzyme systems, which can lead to serious consequences, even fatal. Because the liver receives a double burden: her medicines and components necessary to process, and there is also alcohol. It is not acceptable use of alcohol in the treatment of neuroleptic drugs, analgesics, anti-inflammatory, hypnotics, diuretics and antidepressants. Alcoholic drinks may not only neutralize their effect, but in general change the properties of the drug, making it act unpredictably dangerous. Do not take alcohol during treatment with insulin, nitroglycerin, antibiotics. Should be remembered that alcohol itself causes the release of substances in the blood that raise blood pressure. Therefore, if you drink stimulants - ephedrine, Teofedrin, mezatona, vasopressin - even a small dose of alcohol may, by summing the effect lead to a hypertensive crisis or stroke.