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Alcohol: Do's and Don'ts During a COVID-19 Pandemic
- To avoid weakening your body's immune system, harming your health, and creating health risks for others, you should completely avoid drinking alcoholic beverages.
- Only in a sober state can you maintain vigilance, speed of reaction and action, and clarity of mind when making decisions that affect you personally, your family members, and members of your environment.
- If you consume alcohol, reduce the amount to a minimum and avoid alcohol intoxication.
- Drinking alcohol should not become a social occasion for smoking in company and vice versa: drinking alcoholic beverages is often accompanied by smoking, and smoking in turn increases the risk of a more complicated and dangerous course of COVID-19. Don't forget that smoking indoors is a risk for other members of your family, and you must avoid creating an environment that endangers their health.
- Children and teenagers who live with you should not have access to alcohol. They should also not see you drinking, as your example is a role model for them.
- Talk to the children and adolescents who live with you about the problems associated with COVID-19 and alcohol use, such as the dangers of quarantine violations and physical distance requirements. Such violations can worsen the course of a pandemic.
- Be aware of how much time your children spend in front of the television or other devices. There is constant heavy advertising of alcoholic beverages in the media, and the media also disseminates harmful and incorrect or distorted information that can shape children and adolescents into drinking and excessive drinking habits at an early age.
- Never mix alcoholic beverages with medications, even herbal or over-the-counter medications, because mixing medications with alcohol can decrease their effectiveness or, conversely, increase their effects to the point of toxicity and danger to health and life.
- Do not drink alcohol if you are taking medications that affect the central nervous system (e.g., pain relievers, hypnotics, antidepressants, etc.) because drinking alcohol can inhibit liver function and cause liver failure and other serious health problems.
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