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how long after drinking alcohol must I wait to start Antabuse? I have talked w/ my dr in regards to starting a program based on antabuse to stop drinking. I have failed to ask him how long alcohol must be out of my system prior to starting. I read online it could be 12 hrs or a couple of days. Anyone know? Thanks for your time. beer drinker only. never drunk, just realize the 9-11 beers a day is not good for my health, so if sober comments just wanted to clarify each morning I feel fine.

Fabulous xox replied: "24 hours if you drink loads of water."

Hilary☮ replied: "I'd just be honest and upfront with my doctor to get the for sure right answer. Can't fix a problem if you can't be fully honest with yourself and the person/people trying to help you. I wish you the best of luck!"

HALEY WANTS iT.<3 replied: "um until your fully sober. drink water to flush it out of your system. and just wait 24 hours."

I have a freind who has just been prescribed antabuse tablets for alcohol dependency? they have been advised not to use any cosmetic products containing alcohol but also to avoid at all costs any food stuffs with alcohol in them.My question is can anybody tell me where i can obtain a list of such items.

freshbliss replied: "I used to work in a grocery store (whole foods) with a rehab center down the street - we used to get this question all the time. I tried looking for one, but to the best of mt knowledge there is no such thing.... Just have to be super careful with reading labels."

sapphire_630 replied: "http://www.healthtouch.com/bin/EContent_HT/drugShowLfts.asp?fname=usp0418.htm&title=Antabuse&cid=HT Do not drink any alcohol, even small amounts, while you are taking this medicine and for 14 days after you stop taking it , because the alcohol may make you very sick. In addition to beverages, alcohol is found in many other products. Reading the list of ingredients on foods and other products before using them will help you to avoid alcohol. You can also avoid alcohol if you: * Do not use alcohol-containing foods, products, or medicines, such as elixirs, tonics, sauces, vinegars, cough syrups, mouth washes, or gargles. * Do not come in contact with or breathe in the fumes of chemicals that may contain alcohol, acetaldehyde, paraldehyde, or other related chemicals , such as paint thinner, paint, varnish, or shellac. * Use caution when using alcohol-containing products that are applied to the skin , such as some transdermal (stick-on patch) medicines or rubbing alcohol, back rubs, after-shave lotions, colognes, perfumes, toilet waters, or after-bath preparations. Using such products while you are taking disulfiram may cause headache, nausea, or local redness or itching because the alcohol in these products may be absorbed into your body. Before using alcohol-containing products on your skin, first test the product by applying some to a small area of your skin. Allow the product to remain on your skin for 1 or 2 hours. If no redness, itching, or other unwanted effects occur, you should be able to use the product. * Do not use any alcohol-containing products on raw skin or open wounds ."

xo379 replied: "You really need to look on the label to see if it has it in it..."Cosmetic products, including those labeled "alcohol free," may contain other alcohols, such as cetyl, stearyl, cetearyl, or lanolin alcohol. "--so look for those ingredients...also anything with the SD Alcohol 23-A, SD Alcohol 40, or SD Alcohol 40-B listed in the ingredients. Also stay away from Mouthwash. Regarding food: many cooks in restaurants use alcohol to flavor meat. So it is best to avoid going out to restaurants for a while."

knicname replied: "Drug.com But your friend really needs to look at ingredient labels. Avoid tonics;elixirs;cough medicine; vanilla flavoring; flavored vinegars; sauces & gravies; skin astringents; fumes can also cause reactions...colognes,perfumes; rubbing alcohol; nail polish remover; witch hazel; aftershave;paint remover; etc Good luck to your friend"

Is there any way to void the effects of the drug Antabuse if you are taking it and drink alcohol? I guess i should have elaborated on this question. I have a friend who is on it that is very recourceful. If there is a way, I would like to know so I can see if he is trying it.

The Un-Cola replied: "No. Stop drinking and that will not happen."

czekoskwigel replied: "a typical alcoholic here, court ordered to take antabuse but wants to find a way to keep on drinking. How about you get your damn life together and grow the hell up?"

dakotagurrl replied: "U do know it can kill u if u drink right?!"

beez replied: "No."

CrazyChick replied: "No. When you take any medication, you have to be responsible enough to take it correctly, and as safely as possible. That means when you are on a drug that should not be mixed with alcohol, you don't drink."

'Antabuse' - alcohol medication? Has anyone had an experience of side-effects from the use of the above if they have consumed an alcohol drink whilst still using the medication...?

tappetytap replied: "A guy friend of mine who had to use that stuff years ago said he'd get violently ill if he had a drink. Like, bad nausea and explosive puking type sick..... doesn't sound fun. Here's a link I found about it - it has pretty much everything you'd want to know about Antabuse (and if not, just google it): "

Andy replied: "Not personally, but I have witnessed the effects. While interning at a drug rehab clinic a physician prescribed antabuse and with the informed consent of the individual, asked that he take a shot of vodka. The intense flushing, nausea, vomiting, heart palpitations and headache endured for several hours, and the person continued to experience the headache for more than 24 hours. Antabuse inhibits one of the enzymes necessary to breakdown alcohol. It results in a buildup of acetaldehyde which is toxic and produces the effects. Alcohol ingestion even up to 2 weeks following cessation of the drug will still produce these effects. There is debate about the ethics of asking a patient to experience first hand the effects of drinking alcohol while taking antabuse (and is only done in a clinical setting where emergency measures are available). On the one hand, research has shown that people who are committed to stop drinking and who experience the effects of mixing alcohol and the drug have a lower relapse rate than those who are committed to stopping, but have never experienced the effects of drinking while the drug is still in the circulation."

Has anybody ever drunk alcohol whilst on antabuse? Or have you seen anyone do this?What exactly happens?I've been on them 5 mths. and I'm getting a bit cocky about it all because I'm using shampoo and eating foods I was told to avoid.How bad is the reaction? ????? first 3 answers have left me scratching my head?If you dont know about something then dont answer!I'm just trying to ascertain that my safety net is a realistic deterrent. As for answer 1 what should i have typed instead?"Has anybody ever "DRINKED" alcohol"??F kwit!!

Lance E replied: "Has anyone ever "drunk" alcohol? Maybe you should lay off the sauce and concentrate more on your English and grammar."

puresplprix replied: "well my friend was on it and she got sick as a dog, i wouldnt do it if i were you cause it will be just like you drank wayyy to much but you wont be drunk to numb the pain. why dont you just not take the pill, hold it in your mouth and go spit it out some where and yea its drank not drunk"

captmhunt replied: "Yes I did see on person come into the ER who was on antabuse and downed half a bottle of liquor to try to kill himself... he almost got his wish... it's not pretty and it's nothing anyone would want to do... if you're going to kill yourself, there are much better ways than using antabuse and alcohol... it's REALLY WICKED... It took 4 BIG cops, just to hold him down so we could get the restraints on him and the even broke one of the leathers... You just go crazy."

anon replied: "I work as a psychiatric nurse and have seen the effects of doing this. It's a stupid thing to do, a waste of everyone's time, money, and effort and is one of the many reasons the NHS is in such crisis. Stop lying to yourself and others and admit what this is all about. Oh, and grow up."

Fraulein replied: "Antabuse (disulfiram) is a medication which has no effect on how you feel at all, unless you drink alcohol. If you do drink while taking Antabuse, you will experience the ‘Antabuse reaction.’ How severe the Antabuse reaction is depends on the dose of Antabuse you are taking and how much alcohol you drink. If you take 250 mg per day (the lowest dose): If you were to have one drink while on Antabuse you would get a feeling of fullness in your head or a headache, your heart would beat a little faster, you might break into a sweat, and you might feel sick to your stomach. If you were to continue to drink, you’d feel worse and worse, becoming dizzy, vomiting, pounding headache, and so on. These symptoms go away by themselves in four to six hours. The point is, you would not enjoy the alcohol, and knowing that alcohol would make you sick you won’t take that first drink. Antabuse teaches your body what your mind is already learning in treatment: “alcohol makes me sick and miserable.” Most people who take Antabuse experience a sense of relief and less craving - they know they can’t drink so they don’t have to fight a drink all day long. It is far easier to make the decision not to drink once a day in the morning than to have to make 10 or 20 decisions not to drink all day long. Another great thing about Antabuse is that it continues to work even if you don’t take it for four to seven days. That is, you might get into such a rotten state of mind that you decide you want to go back to drinking, but the Antabuse will make you sick if you drink even if you don’t take it for four to seven days! Usually though, that rotten state of mind won’t last 4 to 7 days and you will be able to choose again; choose to be happy instead of miserable, to live and grow instead of dying the slow soul-sick death of alcoholism."

bronx replied: "George Best and now he is dead!"

joby replied: "Seriously - DO NOT drink alcohol while on anti-buse. It can cause complications that can be potentially fatal. It's easy to become complacent but even using an alcohol based aftershave etc can cause red skin rash, nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps etc. I'm sure your doctor has explained what you should avoid - you should listen to their advice. Just because you haven't had a reaction with the shampoo etc you've been using - doesn't mean you wont suffer a bad reaction in the future. Plus you've done really well for the past 5 months - why spoil it now? Take care and Good Luck!"

Cooking with wine? but cannot have any alcohol in my system? I am a recovering alcoholic, and I take a medication called Antabuse to help me to avoid "slips." This medication causes a person to get very sick if they imbibe any alcohol. My problem is that I love to cook, and wish I could use wine in some of my dishes. I know the alcohol is supposed to evaporate, but does anyone out there have the knowledge of how high the heat must be, or how long the cooking, for ALL the alcohol to "cook off"? I asked my doctor, and even he doesn't know, and wants to err on the side of caution. I certainly don't want to make myself sick, and know there are substitutes that can be used (chicken broth, lemon juice, balsamic vinegar, etc) but some recipes really demand the real thing. Does anybody have knowlege of this to solve my dilemma? Thanks. To all of you (and wow, how many!) who tried to help with this, I want to thank you so much. For those of you who think I really want to drink, NOT SO! I still keep beer in the house for beer-battered fish because I know that's safe. I was sober for over ten years when I had a "slip" and decided to take Antabuse as a further precaution than just what I already did to stay sober and have a great life. I appreciate your concern. Thanks to those who gave me the brand names of non-alcoholic wine, I couldn't fremember the brand I used to know about. (Actually, a friend asked me about the great "Boef a la Bourgingon" that I used to make, and that takes a whole bottle of red wine, so of course I couldn't make it. Thanks again, and I feel much too terrific to want to take a drink and lose the wonderful life I have now.

Dr Universe replied: "when you cook with wine or liquor the Alcohol cooks out"

afling78 replied: "The conventional wisdom accepted by just about everyone in the food world is that all the alcohol you add to a dish evaporates or dissipates during cooking. It’s wrong. In fact, you have to cook something for a good three hours to really eradicate all traces of alcohol. And some cooking methods are less effective at removing alcohol than just letting it stand out uncovered overnight. There's a chart on this page:"

big_dee1984 replied: "cooking actually cooks off the alcohol. if you are still worried, try nonalcoholic wine."

abstracted_nyer replied: "Antabuse is purely sadistic."

DB's mom replied: "I love to cook but take many medications that strongly say I cannot have wine or any form of alcohol I never put in wine. My food always comes out fine. Just leave it out."

Bailey replied: "350 degrees will cook the alcohol out"

MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING replied: "I have always understood that the alcohol cooks away under normal preparation. But I can't imagine any recipe that would be good enough to jeopardize your recovery by taking a chance with it. Stick with the substitutes."

Renzo replied: "100% of the alcohol will never NEVER cook completly out. You can get most of the alcohol cooked out, but never all of it. Instead of wine chicken/beef stock and a little tomato paste will add a deep rich flavor that the wine would add"

chmar11 replied: "No, sorry I don't know. But I would stick with substituting broth or other items. Better to be safe then sorry."

Thinks2Much replied: "It isn't worth the risk, honey. If you have the wine in your hand to put in the food, you know what you are going to do and so do I. Stop playing with the idea of getting away with alcohol in any form if you really want to stay sober. It's a game you are destined to lose. As for cooking, broth works best. If you really want the same taste, try the "white wine" version of Worchestershire Sauce by Lea & Perrins."

fushia replied: "try cooking with non alcoholic wine instead . you will find it in most supermarket one of them is called shloer.and good luck with trying to re-form your life."

Stevie K replied: "All of the alcohol is burnt off during cooking... if making a stew/casserole etc. then allow the wine to reduce for 3 minutes before adding other wet ingredients then allow to stew for 2 hours, this will remove all of the alcohol. If making a sauce with wine, then reduce to a quarter of the original volume and there will be no alcohol left in it... Hope this help!"

Apples to Apples replied: "I don't know the exact number of minutes, however; I can give you an example of how to tell. I know this works for vodka. When you add vodka to a recipe and it starts to simmer, smell the steam...it will have a very high alcohol smell. Smell it again after a couple of minutes...it will still smell like alcohol, but it will start diminishing. After about 10 minutes or so smell it again. When you smell the steam and the alcohol smell doesn't shoot straight up your nose, the alcohol has evaporated. I know this, because the alcohol has to evaporate when I make the sauce for Pasta Vodka just before adding the heavy cream."

nicepuddin replied: "Sounds like an excuse to imbibe wine to me. Why risk it? There are millions of good recipes that don't contain wine. Have you spoken to your fellow alcoholics at AA about this? Even if the alcohol burns away you will be left with the flavour and I would imagine tasting wine is a dangerous step. Are you sure you want alcohol in your house? In your hand while you are pouring it in the cooking? Are you sure you won't drink any? Why dance with the devil?"

missi replied: "most of the alcohol should evaporate during cooking, it doesn't take that long. if you are using a high enough % of alchohol, light it on fire, (while it's cooking) and when the flames go out, the alchohol is gone. you are right about vinigar being an excellent substitute."

miss_gem_01 replied: "It sounds to me like you're really looking for an excuse to ingest alcolhol again. (I don't mean to judge) But as you said, there are many alternatives, and plenty of good dishes you can make that don't include alcohol. I'd stick on the safe side."

Lori B replied: "When cooking with any kind of alcolholic beverage, most of the alcolhol content evaporates with cooking,"

Jingerelle replied: "http://www.chow.com/digest/2199 Check out this article! I hope this helps."

Robert with a hat replied: "Hello, all the info you need is contained in the link below. It seems like alcohol does not evaporate that quickly, and you have to cook the dish for a good three hours before all traces of alcohol are gone. Also, some cooking methods are more effective than others in eradicating the alcohol traces. Hope this helps."

caymuscab14 replied: "I am not a doctor but i can tell you that if you are cokking on high heat it wont take long...Alchohol evaporates fast and your not going to use enough to even hurt you i would think....I think you will be fine...Also, you can substitute sutter home fre which is non achoholic wine and it will serve the same purpose...U really cant taste the wine in the food so i think that would be the way to go!! I hope this helps"

Diane B. replied: "Here's some stuff I answered previously to someone who'd asked a somewhat similar question: ``````````````````````````````````````````````````` First I agree with previous posters about substiting with things like fruit juice or fruit puree (maybe along with chicken or other stock and a bit of vinegar if not using a sour fruit), flavored vinegars (apple, rice, etc.), some extracts (those without alcohol), etc. The basic thing though is just to think of *what the wine or liqueur specified actually has in it* (besides the alcohol): ... e.g....grapes or grape juice (white or red) and sugar, plus peach-apple-plum-apricot or other fruits and things that may be present in liqueurs, etc. . . . ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````` And you might want to check out the rest of that whole thread as well: Great job on your recovery!... and happy life Diane B."

Shaunda L replied: "I am an aspiring chef and my husband has been sober for over 14 years, I'm always creating or trying out new recipes, but when they call for the wine I just leave it out. I used to love to make this delicious white wine sauce to pour over chicken or pork, but now I just add extra butter to add back what is lacking without the wine. I also just add extra herbs and flavors to enhance what the wine would have. This works for me and my husband! Hope this information helps you!"

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