Can I drink alcohol while taking infusion for preventing high blood pressure?

The answer is that it is absolutely not recommended to drink. Even if you think you have a good drinking capacity and you don't feel uncomfortable after drinking normally, as long as you take medicine to prevent high blood pressure, the risk of drinking will be several times higher than usual.

Two years ago, I met a 58-year-old patient when I was consulting at a community health service center. His blood pressure was usually at a critical high value, and he took medicine every day to control it well. After autumn, I heard from the old man that injecting some liquid to clear blood vessels can prevent blood pressure from soaring and cerebral infarction, so I prescribed puerarin injection for a week. On the third day, I caught up with my grandson’s full-moon banquet. I thought it was not the cephalosporin that I lost, so I drank half a glass of white wine and it would be fine. But before the banquet was over, I felt like my head was so bloated that I was so flustered that I couldn’t stand. When my family sent me, my blood pressure was 192/105, and my whole body was red and itchy. I worked hard for most of the night before I stabilized myself.

Many people take this matter by chance, thinking that as long as it is not a cephalosporin antibiotic and will not trigger a disulfiram reaction, they can just drink it. Some people even think that drinking some wine can activate blood circulation and "complement each other" with the effect of infusion. This idea is really making fun of the body.

You have to know that the infusions we often talk about to prevent high blood pressure are mostly Chinese patent medicine preparations that promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, or Western medicines that have the effect of dilating blood vessels. They are used to adjust the state of blood vessels and reduce the risk of blood pressure fluctuations. When alcohol is added, it will first stimulate sympathetic nerve excitement, make blood vessels contract, and increase the heart rate. This is exactly the opposite of the effect of the infusion. It means that the infusion you spent money on is in vain. The sudden rise and fall of blood pressure is more likely to cause fatal problems such as blood vessel plaque shedding and cerebral hemorrhage. Moreover, these drugs that activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis themselves will affect coagulation function, and alcohol will also aggravate coagulation abnormalities. In the event of gastrointestinal bleeding or intracranial bleeding, the risk is much higher than usual.

Oh, by the way, "relying on infusion to prevent high blood pressure" is not a reliable approach. Unless the blood pressure fluctuates greatly in the short term and there are obvious dizziness and headaches and other ischemic symptoms, the doctor will recommend short-term infusion adjustments. For normal people or patients with stable blood pressure control, there is no need for regular infusion to open blood vessels. On the contrary, it will increase the risk of allergies and phlebitis.

If there is a drinking situation that cannot be avoided, you must wait at least 72 hours after the infusion and all the drugs have been metabolized before considering it. Moreover, if you have basic hypertension, drink less if you can, and quit if you can. After all, it is alcohol that you drink, and it is your own blood vessels that are at risk.