Category: Toxicology
Keywords: disulfiram (PubMed Search)
Posted: 9/25/2014 by Fermin Barrueto
(Updated: 12/4/2024)
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When you prescribe certain medications, it may require some further instructions to avoid ethanol or a disulfiram like reaction (nausea, vomiting, flushing) may occur. Keep this short list in your brain:
1) Particular cephalosporins: cefotetan is a the one more likely
2) Nitrofurantoin
3) Sulfonylureas: chlorpropamide and tolbutamide
4) Metronidazole
5) Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole
Goldfranks 8th Edition, p1179