Recently I heard that people living with HIV/AIDS, who are taking antiretroviral drugs, are confused about the question of drinking alcohol while taking drugs.
I would like to help and assist here a bit and I hope to take some fears away in order to help making you healthier and prolonging your lives.
It was frequently said, that it is not good to take antiretroviral treatment and to drink alcohol at the same time. All of you have been told never to touch alcohol when you have been put on the drugs that save your lives!
Well, now – listen to your doctor and the people who love you and really care for you, you will know them because they do not scare you neither they should make you feel bad!
Firstly, it is certainly BETTER for your health NOT to drink or to take recreational drugs when you take medicine. From your own experience you know that you get tired and you forget about time and duties of daily lives when you drink too much alcohol. In this situation you might forget to take your drugs at the right time or to take them at all.
All drugs aim to keep you healthy and are therefore given in a certain and best way. Alcohol makes you to change this way and this is dangerous to your help. Take them as told, never change the way.
Secondly, Alcohol by itself is not very healthy if you drink too much and especially damages your liver in the course of years. People living with HIV – but even others – have many times other viruses (Hepatitis viruses) that damage the liver and tests are not available in Bulongwa. If you are unknowingly infected with that viruses plus HIV the liver damage may be aggravated by Alcohol and therefore I would be happier if you do not drink too much!
BUT IF YOU DRINK and you feel really happy with it:
STILL - TAKE YOUR DRUGS AT THE RIGHT TIME as told by the doctor and never change the schedule! That means for example: If you take TRIOMUNE - one pill in the morning and one pill in the evening at the same time!
Don’t forget: It is all about your own health and knowledge and nobody has the right - no doctor, no nurse, no government official or someone from the church, no witchdoctor – nobody, to deny you the drugs or to scare you. As long as you take them regularly and you are monitored well, it is better for you to take them - even if you drink!
Keep in mind: Better not to drink but if you cannot abstain, take your drugs though – and a Condom!
I am wishing you a good and fearless life and if you have a question – ask the doc at the PIUMA office! We are here for you and you can get advice from the whole world!
DR Rainer Brandl
MD, DTM&H, MCTM
Pdf file with kisawahili ... Download here
I would like to help and assist here a bit and I hope to take some fears away in order to help making you healthier and prolonging your lives.
It was frequently said, that it is not good to take antiretroviral treatment and to drink alcohol at the same time. All of you have been told never to touch alcohol when you have been put on the drugs that save your lives!
Well, now – listen to your doctor and the people who love you and really care for you, you will know them because they do not scare you neither they should make you feel bad!
Firstly, it is certainly BETTER for your health NOT to drink or to take recreational drugs when you take medicine. From your own experience you know that you get tired and you forget about time and duties of daily lives when you drink too much alcohol. In this situation you might forget to take your drugs at the right time or to take them at all.
All drugs aim to keep you healthy and are therefore given in a certain and best way. Alcohol makes you to change this way and this is dangerous to your help. Take them as told, never change the way.
Secondly, Alcohol by itself is not very healthy if you drink too much and especially damages your liver in the course of years. People living with HIV – but even others – have many times other viruses (Hepatitis viruses) that damage the liver and tests are not available in Bulongwa. If you are unknowingly infected with that viruses plus HIV the liver damage may be aggravated by Alcohol and therefore I would be happier if you do not drink too much!
BUT IF YOU DRINK and you feel really happy with it:
STILL - TAKE YOUR DRUGS AT THE RIGHT TIME as told by the doctor and never change the schedule! That means for example: If you take TRIOMUNE - one pill in the morning and one pill in the evening at the same time!
Don’t forget: It is all about your own health and knowledge and nobody has the right - no doctor, no nurse, no government official or someone from the church, no witchdoctor – nobody, to deny you the drugs or to scare you. As long as you take them regularly and you are monitored well, it is better for you to take them - even if you drink!
Keep in mind: Better not to drink but if you cannot abstain, take your drugs though – and a Condom!
I am wishing you a good and fearless life and if you have a question – ask the doc at the PIUMA office! We are here for you and you can get advice from the whole world!
DR Rainer Brandl
MD, DTM&H, MCTM
Pdf file with kisawahili ... Download here
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