Do not take sleeping pills after drinking alcohol. If you take sleeping pills, it may cause drug reactions, damage the central nervous system and peripheral nerves, change cerebral ischemia and hypoxia, and inhibit respiration, leading to very serious consequences. Avoid taking medication, especially sleeping pills, after drinking alcohol. Because sleeping pills have an inhibitory effect on the brain, taking them after drinking alcohol will produce a double inhibitory effect, making people sluggish, drowsy, and even unconscious.
1. Although drinking alcohol can help people refresh and activate the cerebral cortex quickly, alcohol is exactly the opposite of the calming effect of sleeping pills on the brain. Therefore, when the two are taken simultaneously, they produce a "positive and negative cancellation" effect, and of course, the sleeping pills fail. Excessive alcohol may also stimulate the poisoning of sleeping pills.
2. Both alcohol and sleeping pills have an inhibitory effect on the central nervous system of the human body. Due to the different inhibition of various parts of the brain, excitatory symptoms appear in the early stage, and inhibitory symptoms such as lethargy appear in the later stage. Taking sleeping pills after drinking alcohol will also inhibit the respiratory and circulatory centers, leading to slower breathing, decreased blood pressure, shock, and even respiratory arrest and death. Therefore, it is important to avoid taking alcohol and sleeping pills at the same time, and also avoid drinking alcohol during medication to prevent the adverse reactions of the medication from being aggravated or even causing a disulfiram-like reaction, which may be life-threatening in severe cases.
