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- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spdcc!dyer
- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Subject: Re: Prozac and alcohol
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.203008.19119@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <By0KMD.E2v@world.std.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:30:08 GMT
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- In article <By0KMD.E2v@world.std.com> rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:
- >My wife is trying Prozac for mild depression. The physician said
- >no alcohol and was quite adamant. My wife likes a daily glass of
- >wine with dinner and asked the pharmacist. He said there is no
- >problem mixing alcohol and Prozac. Would someone comment?
- >Is there a risk mixing the drugs?
- >
-
- I can't imagine that a glass of wine with dinner would have much of
- an interaction, if at all, with Prozac. I think your doctor is being
- somewhat conservative, unless there's some other reason she shouldn't
- drink alcohol.
-
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- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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