I rarely drink (recent trip to New Orleans excepted), but on our afternoon walk we walked by a couple of pubs and I thought (and croaked to my coworker), ‘You know? I’d like a beer.’
I’ve had laryngitis since the afternoon of the 6th and have been taking doxycycline since the 13th. Will a beer adversely affect my vocal cords, or diminish the effectiveness of the antibiotics?
There won’t be any direct effect (your vocal cords are in your trachea, and beer (hopefully) goes down your esophagus), but alcohol is a diuretic, so it’ll dry you out a bit, which is not ideal for inflamed cords. One beer, though, wouldn’t hurt you much, especially if you replace any potential fluid loss with water.
Over several years and a handful of different doctors, I’ve taken an assortment of antibiotics. None of the docs said, “No alcohol with this.” I usually read the whole “fear sheet” of each new drug I’m prescribed, and no antibiotic I’ve taken had any warnings about alcohol.
In Jamaica, a waitress once asked me if I’d like a beer to “settle my breakfast”. I loved that concept and have introduced it to others. On vacation, my gf and I usually have a cold one after breakfast.