Good evening. It's New Year's Eve today, so it's obvious that I'd like to have some alcohol with my friends at a party. I've recently started taking metformin, and the last time I took it was at 10 p.m. yesterday. If I drink some champagne around 12 p.m. today, will I be okay? How long after withdrawal can I drink alcohol? I'm interested in the same thing with the moklar - it's also a drug that I take. I'd like to point out that I haven't taken it yet, and the last time I took it was yesterday around 5 p.m.
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Ewa Pilch Pharmacist, Editor
7 months ago
We have written about the safety of alcohol consumption during treatment with metformin preparations in our opinions:
Alcohol should also be avoided while taking Moklar. The combination of alcohol and Moklar increases the risk of side effects.
However, the average half-life of the drug is about 3 hours, which means that after more than 15 hours, the concentration of Moklar in the blood is close to zero and drinking a small amount of alcohol (e.g. some champagne) should not have a major impact on the safety of the therapy.
I am attaching links that allow you to check the availability of medicines and make a reservation in selected pharmacies:
https://www.gdziepolek.pl/produkty/49986/moklar-tabletki-powlekane/apteki
https://www.gdziepolek.pl/substancje/metformina
We wrote about whether drugs can be combined with alcohol in the article:
https://www.gdziepolek.pl/artykuly/czy-mozna-laczyc-leki-z-alkoholem