Can I drink alcohol after vaccination?

Many people, for some reason, are embarrassed or unwilling to consult a doctor with various questions, including one that affects the compatibility of alcohol with vaccination against diphtheria, tetanus, rabies, or other infections that threaten a person with mortal danger. Often the situation develops so that the day intended for vaccination falls on the date that was set aside for any party or event. And then the patient who was vaccinated is faced with a difficult choice - whether to take alcohol or not?

The most developed states, in which medicine is becoming accessible and modern, have long since gotten rid of terrifying epidemics and pandemics that easily claimed tens of thousands of human lives. Feeling a certain security and being in a society with an intensive pace of life, a person begins to take the vaccination procedure more lightly. However, there are a sufficient number of myths about the dangerous effects of alcohol on humans.

Meanwhile, alcohol adversely and negatively affects the entire human body; it cannot cure a person of various diseases (as some people are sure), especially those that have an infectious nature.

Vaccinations

You can select a list of vaccines that must be administered to an adult. Also, those vaccinations that were given in childhood, over time, cease to be effective, which will require re-vaccination.

1. HPV This vaccine is required to be administered to girls aged 11 to 26 three times. Papillomavirus can result in a cancer of the cervix.
2. Hepatitis A or B. Different vaccines are used for injection. Hepatitis A is given to healthcare providers and people who experience some problems with liver function, alcohol, and drugs. It is important to vaccinate against hepatitis B in those people who are not particularly choosy in sexual relations and regularly change partners.
3. Flu. Such a vaccine must be given to young people and adults. In particular, it is required to vaccinate citizens who work in public places with high traffic (waiters, doctors, employees of social funds, sellers).
4. Encephalitis. This is a pathology that threatens a person with mortal danger or disability. The most effective protection is vaccination. The vaccine must be administered before a person plans to go to an area where the risk of infection is very high. Most often, vaccination takes two stages.
5. Rabies. Such an injection must be given to people who are at risk of infection. Over the course of three months, the patient receives six injections.
6. Injection against tetanus, pertussis or diphtheria pathogens. Such a vaccine is administered once at ten years. If a woman has a baby, and more than a decade has passed since the previous vaccine, then she will need to be vaccinated before the birth (in the second or third trimester).
7. Mumps, rubella, or measles. In fact, this vaccination is carried out in childhood, but if one of the stages of the vaccination was missed, and the adult did not suffer any of these diseases, then immunization must be done urgently.
8. Chickenpox. If an adult suffers from this disease, then in comparison with a younger age, the process of the course of the disease is more difficult.In addition, chickenpox in an adult can result in serious complications. Therefore, those persons who in childhood did not suffer from chickenpox are required to receive vaccination. The disease can lead to shingles, and therefore people over 60 years old also need to get an injection of the vaccine.

Why vaccinate an adult

Children's medical institutions and educational institutions exercise strict control so that the mandatory vaccination schedule is strictly observed. Many people are mistaken in the belief that only children should be vaccinated. Due to the correct approach to this process and government assistance, it was possible to reduce to almost zero the likelihood of developing infectious epidemics in countries where medicine is accessible to everyone and is at a high level of development.

Most often, after some time, the effect of the vaccine ends, therefore, revaccination will need to be done so that the person is still protected from various infections. Given that a considerable number of adults have a habit of relieving stress or fatigue with alcohol, vaccination can change an established way of life for a period of time.

The importance of vaccination and the advice provided by your doctor should not be neglected!

Self-medication and neglect of medical requirements often results in serious deterioration of well-being, health problems.

Why it is forbidden to take alcohol after vaccination

The vaccination process quite intensively affects the human body, exerting a strong load on it. Immunity sharply responds to dangerous agents that enter the body, quickly producing a large volume of antibodies. Thus, a strong and stable immune system is formed.

In order for the stage of formation of immunity and its protective function to proceed as calmly, painlessly and correctly as possible, it is important that the general state of human health is good. Preventive procedures aimed at preventing chronic diseases, a strong immune system help the body safely overcome the first stages after vaccination.

Fact! Even when alcohol is taken in minimal quantities, it inhibits the immunity and performance of the internal systems and organs of a person.

Despite the fact that ethanol does not interact directly with those drugs that are contained in the vaccine, alcohol reduces the ability of the immune system to carry out a protective function, and the reproduction of antibodies becomes less effective. Therefore, drinking alcohol can reduce the effect of the delivered vaccine. The immunity, being in this case weakened, is not able to produce the required volume of antibodies, which can lead to side effects or even complete infection by the agent after vaccination.

What is the risk of drinking alcohol after vaccination

Now medicine is gradually moving away from the use of “live” viruses in the process of vaccination. One way or another, even those vaccines that are considered “inanimate” can lead to some complications or side effects that can be very unpleasant. According to statistics provided by WHO, a healthy person reacts negatively to the vaccine in only 1% of all cases.

So, out of a hundred people who were vaccinated, only one will experience unwanted side effects of the vaccine. Drinking alcohol at times increases the likelihood of ailments associated with a weakened immune system during the action of the vaccine.

Among those who often drink alcohol, more than thirty percent may experience concomitant ailments after vaccination.

An excessively negative reaction can occur after drinking alcohol if vaccination was carried out against the following diseases:

• measles
• tick-borne encephalitis;
• tetanus
• hepatitis A;
• rabies;
• diphtheria.

Most often, the following associated negative manifestations of the vaccine occur:

• diarrhea, digestive tract disorders, vomiting;
• increase in body temperature;
• sore throat, pain and cough;
• swelling at the injection site;
• increase or decrease in blood pressure, arrhythmic manifestations;
• flu-like condition;
• loss of consciousness and dizziness;
• difficulty breathing
• pain in the musculoskeletal system.

At the same time, the process when the immune system adapts to a foreign agent lasts from a couple of days to 2 weeks. During this time, patients may experience excessive drowsiness, lack of appetite, excessive sweating, weakness. At this stage, an “unfamiliar” infection is recognized by the body. If ethanol enters the bloodstream at the indicated time, this can reduce the production of antibodies, which means that the strain of the virus will block less effectively than is required. Also, drinking alcohol after vaccination can result in completely unpredictable consequences, which will lead not only to complications, but also to real infection.

It is most dangerous to drink alcohol after vaccinations against hepatitis, rabies, measles and tetanus have been given. Some diseases require vaccination, which is carried out in several steps, and the most important thing is to pay attention to the well-being on the first day of vaccination and the next 2-3 days.

Vaccination against rabies virus lasts for three months, and during the prescribed period it is absolutely forbidden to take alcohol even in minimal quantities.

Often, hepatitis vaccination is combined with a diphtheria vaccine. The immunity in this case retains a protective function for 10 years. Vaccination is carried out in several stages, which take about six months.

How long after vaccination can I drink alcohol

But it should be borne in mind that if vaccination is carried out against the infections mentioned above, even a small dose of alcohol can lead to an urgent need to hospitalize the patient and to prolonged therapy. Any person is responsible for their own health. Alcoholic beverages are not the kind of food product that is necessary to maintain life, so abstinence for some time will turn into only benefits for humans, and immunity will work more efficiently.

Following the recommendations of the doctor, the patient will be able to prevent the occurrence of serious complications, and the effect of the vaccine will become most effective.