Sunday, July 4, 2010

Stay Away From Side Effects - Never Take Alcohol Combined With Sleeping Pills

By Sleat Desjards

You should never take sleeping pills together with any other medicines or drugs such as alcohol. Alcohol is also a form of drug, so both the drugs if taken together can cause serious health problems and sometimes even cause death as they can intermingle and harm us.

Alcohol acts as a depressant and slows the reflexes of human body. Normal breathing and heart beat slows down causing fatigue which makes you snore louder than other times when you are not drunk. Consuming Alcohol with sleeping pills may lead to sleep apnea, which you to stop breathing when asleep which is very dangerous. Sleeping pills are classifies as downers, so when both alcohol and downers functions in your body the organs like liver being unable to handle the load allowing these drug molecules to get reabsorbed and cycle throughout the body.

On taking both the drugs together, reflexes fail to work and you fail to concentrate or focus well. Problems occur with visions and muscle relaxation making you difficult to move. Driving is prohibited when you have taken them together. The whole body gets very little oxygen and one could even get arrested by coma. Kidneys and livers sometimes fail to function during coma and death occurs due to cardiac arrest. Never mix alcohol with sleeping pills!

Sleeping pills makes the body so tired and relaxed that the body is put to rest for more than eight hours to get a good amount of sleep. The negative effect of such pill is the state of trance is intense to such an extent that people are totally unaware of their surrounding and not even when she is being raped. Sleeping pills gives a sound sleep but do not choose such drugs to get rid of insomnia. As pills are only temporary solution and we have to take several things into consideration before taking it like get the medical history checked from your doctor and do various necessary physical examinations. Your doctor will judge if your present conditions can permit you to take sleeping pills and eliminate its side effects.

If you are a regular alcohol user, better avoid taking pills before sleep. Instead of surrendering yourself to sleeping pills try to adopt healthy habit of sleep if you have strong desire to sleep well and get rid of insomnia. When a short nap of only 20 minutes is enough to revitalize you, there is no need to sleep for long hours in day time. You can take warm showers to relax your muscles thus giving you good sleep. If you want to create a healthy sleeping habit, it is recommended to avoid supper at least 2-3 hours before retiring as well as  your daily exercise. The air-conditioners in your room should be plugged only for 30 minutes or set at 65 degrees  to keep the room cool and enable you to have sound sleep. You should stick to some useful steps like this and try not to take alcohol and sleeping pills together at night and see if you can get rid of sleeping problems.

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