Last week, while flying home for a high school reunion, I sat next to a very pleasant, talkative woman and her adorable and polite 8 year-old son. The woman and I started chatting and eventually I learned that she is an accountant, and I in turn shared that I am a doctor. Sometime later she non-chalantly explained that she had gotten pregnant

My knee-jerk response to this question is another question: if you are sick enough to require antibiotics, why are you out partying/ drinking alcohol in the first place? Stay in bed and recover!

But for those who just can’t miss out on the party, I have a detailed answer.
Alcohol consumption decreases your immune system’s ability to fight infection by inhibiting the proliferation of white blood cells (cells that attack an infection)