Covid jab/ alcohol

[Harry Bloomfield]

I'm due to have the jab next week, but I have read (unofficial it seems) suggestions not to imbibe alcohol for two days before and seven days after the jab. Has anyone else heard this and can quote an official recommendation?

 

[Brigadier]

I'm due to have the jab next week, but I have read (unofficial it seems) suggestions not to imbibe alcohol for two days before and seven days after the jab. Has anyone else heard this and can quote an official recommendation?

Probably *******s.
As a nation, we drink too much alcohol, so any chance the authorities have to try and reduce this consumption, they'll take.
That's my "opinion" anyway.

 

[crystal ball]

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...uk-recipients-on-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Probably *******s.
As a nation, we drink too much alcohol, so any chance the authorities have to try and reduce this consumption, they'll take.
That's my "opinion" anyway.

It seems to trace back to just one doctors personal opinion, so probably best to disregard it - thanks.

 

[Brigadier]

It seems to trace back to just one doctors personal opinion, so probably best to disregard it - thanks.

It's probably a bit like the old trope about not drinking "coz I'm on antibiotics".

IIRC, there are a handful of antibiotics on which you really can't drink alcohol, a few more where doing so "may" reduce their effectiveness, and the rest, no difference.

But I stand to be corrected

 

[Wayners]

Just don't turn up drunk for vaccination I guess.

 

[anobium]

You are given a sheet with a list of do’s and don’ts after the injection and nowhere does it mention about not having alcohol.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

You are given a sheet with a list of do’s and don’ts after the injection and nowhere does it mention about not having alcohol.

Carry on regardless then

I'm not an heavy drinker, usually just a glass of wine with dinner, but I saw the rumours doing the rounds and wondered.

 

[crystal ball]

 

[fillyboy]

not to imbibe alcohol for two days before and seven days after the jab.

That's me *****d.

 

[Brigadier]

Just don't turn up drunk for vaccination I guess.

Not in your car, anyway

 

[Brigadier]

I'm due to have the jab next week, but I have read (unofficial it seems) suggestions not to imbibe alcohol for two days before and seven days after the jab. Has anyone else heard this and can quote an official recommendation?

I've drunk alcohol most days, for over thirty years.
From time to time, I've been prescribed antibiotics.
I've got better every time, and not felt any more unwell than I did before.
I'm surely not alone in the above.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Not in your car, anyway

I don't usually go there in my car, because the bus stop is 100 yards from my door, runs every 15minutes and drops me at the next village outside the door of the medical centre. It's just not worth the effort of getting the car out of the garage and through the gates, compared to the ease of jumping on the bus.

 

[Brigadier]

Just don't turn up drunk for vaccination I guess.

Not in your car, anyway

You might be alright in any case though ; Dibble are only interested in nicking women walking in parks , brandishing Costas