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No, but if you drink alcohol while taking metronidazole, you are likely to experience severe nausea and vomiting due to interactions between those medications. If avoiding alcohol is not possible for you, call your health care provider for an alternate to metronidazole.

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It will make you throw up and they say to wait 3 days after you have finished before drinking alcohol.Anyway if youre on antibiotics you arent well enough to be drinking in my oppinion.

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