Possible Interaction: Ethanol and Digitalis

“Reinforcing effect of ethanol as well as its voluntary consumption may be affected by digitalis glycosides and endogenous SPL.”

“Both the competition of ethanol with these cardiac sterols and the narrow margin of safety in the therapeutic use of digitalis derivatives would seem to place at increased risk those individuals who receive digitalis and simultaneously consume large amounts of ethanol or whose alcohol dehydrogenase function is impaired.”