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Alcohol and drugs in diabetes - Alcohol has a direct impact on drug therapy for patients with diabetes. The list of possible reactions like the following:
•    The risk of hypoglycemic reactions occur when receiving ethanol and sulfonylureas,
•    Biguanides lactic acidosis may be due to a combination with a large amount of alcohol,
•    Reaction may occur when alcohol is taken together with tolbutamide and chlorpropamide,
•    Ketoacidosis can occur as a consequence of inhibition of gluconeogenesis and glycogenesis.

It should also be borne in mind that the rules of supply and the general behavior of patients with diabetes, in general, is widely known but the rules for the use of alcohol - known not for everyone. Especially because the doctors all patients with this diagnosis is leaning toward a healthy lifestyle, banning alcohol completely. You can divide the liquor into two groups according to the degree of danger: Spirits: rum, whiskey, gin, brandy, vodka. In such high alcohol content beverage with a small amount of sugar, the maximum tolerated dose in this case is 50-100 grams. Exceeding this dose may be fraught with hypoglycemia

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Drinks with less alcohol, but with more are sugar: liquor, wine, brandy and champagne. Maximum permissible dose of such drinks is no more than 250 grams. And then, out of the allowed for patients with diabetes should be excluded sweet champagne, dessert wines and liqueurs are the only acceptable way to "dry" drinks - those in which sugar is not more than 5%.

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