Report Abuse. Japan is very conservative. Japan is also intolerant of others and xenophobic. They tend to be more monolithic than the US-there is very little diversity among the population.
The only way that alcohol can affect any of these antibiotics is to alter the rate in which the liver breaks them down or increase the rate in which they are excreted. However, because this is only true of certain antibiotics it is not true that alcohol, as a rule, decreases the effectiveness of antibiotics.
The new research, which was conducted while Afshar was at the University of Maryland, found immune system disruption occurs while alcohol is still in the system. This could mean that if you already have an infection, binge drinking might make it worse, he said. Or it might make you more susceptible to a new infection.