Alcohol and the vaccination.

lemongrove ???

GagaJo

Lucca

I Believe another poster said two weeks abstinence was essential .....along with having to be in peak physical condition! Counts me out !!
I’m enjoying my birthday bottle of Pouilly Fumé as we speak.

I thought the point of giving the vaccine to the extremely elderly and infirm first was BECAUSE they weren't in peak physical condition. Although, I might lay off the wine for a couple of weeks before my injection.

Well exactly . Other poster I Mentioned was prone to nonsense comments like that !

Prof Jason Leitch (National Clinical Director - Scotland) was asked this question at the Scottish government briefing earlier this week. He said it’s nonsense.

A doctor dispelled this as rubbish on TV the other day. Just another of the stupid ideas are flying around on social media....

A lot of people are being vaccinated soon after booking so it hardly seems likely.

I know several people who have had the vaccine and this wasn't mentioned. Joan Collins was asked what she did after she had hers. She said 'had a drink'.

I know I sound like a spoilsport but be careful. My daily glass of wine and nightly brandy which I enjoyed, turned to a bottle of brandy a week. I’m now horrified thinking I was having 35 units a week. Anyone else?

I have heard nothing of this. Had my jab Tuesday. I always have a small glass of Guiness with my lunch and small glass of red wine with my dinner. So if the vaccination hasn’t worked will make no difference to me because I haven’t been out since last March and the only people who have come into the house are my cleaner, podiatrist and the district nurse.

I have not seen anything on this.

This was brought up on one of the morning tv magazine programmes and a doctor replied that it was an urban myth.

However, I’d suggest going for it in a drunken stupor might not be advisable ??.

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Theoddbird

A doctor dispelled this as rubbish on TV the other day. Just another of the stupid ideas are flying around on social media....

It's been reported that a number of independent medical advisory sources have said this but they do make it clear that it's the very heavy consistant drinkers that need to be aware their immune system is weakened because of the drinking.

I don't know what the doctor said but I should imagine he dispelled the one glass a day statement.

Fennel

I asked the nurse when she vaccinated me and she said rubbish.
Anyway, the Oxford vacine contains alcohol (look on the leaflet).
This is what is putting off some people.

The kind of nurse I like.?

I had 24hours’ notice of my vaccination, so no chance to abstain for 2 days!

I've literally just had the phone call from my Doctor's surgery as I was reading this, and am now booked in to have the first jab on January 31st.
As far as I'm concerned I will receive it very gratefully and be thankful that we are in a country where this is available to all and we are being given this free. I'm also thankful for the many people who are giving up their time to administer these vaccinations. Mine is on a Sunday morning.
As a child I learned the saying "The more some people are given the more they want".

It's not in the Post Vaccine leaflet they give you.
If it was a concern it would be

There must be an alcohol free vaccine as some do not drink for religious reasons.
Its another form of social control trying to people drinking.

I think the Oxford Az got alcohol, the Pfizer hasn’t as they are Mormons!

Stop people drinking I!

I think more information on this should be given.I'm certainly not an alcoholic,but I do like a drink some evenings while watching tv.I would make sure I didn't have anything alcoholic that might affect my vaccination.There's a big difference between 2 days after and 2 weeks after,it needs to be made clearer

meant to say "there's a big difference" .I honestly haven't had a drink today!

Spare a thought for my sister and her DH. They are in South Africa and there is an alcohol BAN!

No imports or exports are allowed either. It is a pity because South Africa produces lovely wines. Vineyards are struggling now because of such stupid bureaucracy. ?

Also, anyone coming into the country has their luggage searched for alcohol which is confiscated.

Granted, people are probably making their own moonshine but if caught - there are consequences.

In France, last year, there was such an outcry about an alcohol ban that it was stopped!

A friend of my husband's is allergic to alcohol and has been saying he can't therefore have the vaccination, That's worrying for both people like him, and for the rest of the population if this adds to the total non-vaccinators.

Why on earth should there be any alcohol in any of the vaccines? Everything I have read about how they are developed and manufactured does nothing to suggest that alcohol has anything to do with it.

The vaccinator, might wipe your arm with an acohol dampened piece of cotton wool, butI do not know even about that.

Redhead I assume your email was a joke.

Oh EllenVannin - next you'll be telling me that anti-biotics and drink don't mix!

I've mixed them on occasions - but usually with a little ice