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My medicine

If you're taking medicine you should be careful about what you drink and what drugs you take.  This applies to all medicines including antibiotics, drugs for mental health problems and painkiillers. 

Scientists and doctors have worked out some of the ways in which our bodies and minds react to different mixtures of medicines and drugs, but nowhere near all of them.  This means that if you put a mixture into your body there's no way of knowing what might happen.  It's safer not to if possible.

An asthma inhaler

What can happen when you mix your drugs 
  1. The drink or drugs might stop the medicine working, so you won't get better
  2. The drink or drugs and the medicine can combine inside your body to produce a dangerous mixture that could make you more ill or even cause you to overdose