It was a bacterial lung infection that got Jacqui. With a fair amount of help from Medway hospital.

I am sure the advice you are getting on drinking alcohol is wrong. My dentist (who is a Moslem and anti-alcohol) has been right over it with me. Certainly with the 'cillins (Ampicillin, Amoxycillin, etc) so long as you don't drink enough to puke your pills out, it makes no difference (except that alcohol never does you any good really).

Metronidazole, however, is from the same chemical group as Antabuse, the drug they use to make alcoholics unable to drink alcohol, and the reaction between the two can (isn't always, but who wants to take the chance) be very severe. Look up the symptoms on the'net. In extreme cases, can include death.