Thyroxine and alcohol combined bad as the one and the other substance may have a negative effect on the cardiovascular and central nervous system. And this can lead to unpredictable consequences - everything will depend on the initial state of the patient.
What is thyroxine and how it acts on the body
Thyroxine is biologically not very active iodine-containing thyroid hormone, which is in the human body is transformed into the active hormone - triyodtiranin have a significant stimulating effect on metabolism
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and the function of many organs and systems.
In particular, it stimulates the cardiovascular system, causing an overdose tachycardia, cardiac arrhythmias, coronary vasospasm (which nourish the heart muscle) and increase in blood pressure.
Adversely affecting the use of high doses of thyroxine and central nervous system. It causes irritability, anxiety, insomnia.
The action of alcohol on the body
Alcohol - a toxic substance that adversely affects all the organs and tissues. The extent of such negative effects depends on the dose taken alcohol, his strength and frequency of administration. Direct toxic effects alcohol has on the brain cells and liver.
The negative effects of alcohol can have on the cardiovascular system. Action is usually a two-phase: first, there is an expansion of the blood vessels and then their persistent contraction with a simultaneous increase in blood pressure.
With frequent use of alcoholic beverages may be elevated blood clots and disruption of the coronary circulation.
In addition, alcohol can also have direct toxic effects on the cells of the heart muscle, causing disturbances in their metabolism - myocardial whose symptoms are irregular heart rhythm and heart pain
Pain in the heart - always consult a doctor
And in the future - cardiovascular failure.
What can happen on a combination of thyroxine and alcohol
A single dose of weak small doses of alcohol does not usually lead to any negative consequences, so the instruction to L-thyroxine, developed by the German pharmaceutical company Berlin-Chemie, no mention of such a combination.
However, this only applies to people who are not suffering from diseases of the cardiovascular system. Alcohol has, as a direct damaging effect on cardiac muscle cells, and indirectly - via its oxidation intermediates. If the patient suffers from myocarditis or ischemic heart disease, effects on the combination of "thyroxine - alcohol" can have serious consequences. Especially hard it can carry a mix of patients suffering from hypertension - persistent high blood pressure.
But the most dangerous is the use of large amounts of alcohol while taking thyroxine. This can lead to unpredictable consequences on the part of the cardiovascular system, even if the patient had not complained of that body.
The negative effect of the combination of thyroxin with alcohol can be, and the central nervous system. But in this case it will likely affect the frequency and duration of the alcohol abuse. As you know, on this background develop neuroses with increased anxiety, irritability
Irritability - you try to control my temper
, Aggression and insomnia. All of this will be exacerbated by taking thyroxine.
The negative impact of a combination of thyroxine - alcohol on the liver is also evident. Alcohol has direct toxic effects on the liver cells. Thyroxine is converted to the active triiodothyronine, and then decomposed into products of metabolism in the liver, therefore impaired liver function will always lead to violations of exchange of thyroxine.
Crucial when taking alcohol while taking thyroxine, will certainly have the number and strength of alcohol consumed alcoholic beverage. Even if considerable damage is the combination will bring, at the cellular level, it will reduce the effectiveness of the treatment. So is it worth the risk?
Alcohol is not compatible with most of the drugs precisely because has a toxic effect on the cells of the whole organism. And this in turn contributes to a violation of cellular metabolism and reduce the effectiveness of the treatment. Whether to accept during treatment with thyroxine
Thyroxine - the main thyroid hormone
alcohol, each patient decides for himself as contraindications for this instruction is not. But should still think: is it worth?
Galina Romanenko