Whether intentional or not, a person can become addicted to both drugs. This heady combination can lead to polysubstance abuse. The side effects manifest in different ways. Both drugs cause intense drowsiness when consumed separately. This might tempt a person to misuse alcohol and Benadryl as a sleep aid. Another side effect is dehydration. Alcohol is a diuretic. It often causes a headache the day after consumption from a lack of water intake.
Symptoms worsen when the person also takes Benadryl, which can cause dry throat, nose, and mouth. Confusion and memory impairment occurs after consuming these two drugs. Certain neurotransmitters in the brain that affect learning and memory become blocked by Benadryl. Alcohol causes similar symptoms of fogginess. Combining both makes impairment more noticeable.
No one likes having to deal with allergies. However, mixing over the counter or prescription drugs with alcohol is often a recipe for disaster.
Benadryl is a form of antihistamine called diphenhydramine that helps your body manage allergy symptoms. Unfortunately, the drug is also commonly used as a sleep aid. This is where the misuse of Benadryl usually begins. However, benadryl should only be used to help treat your allergy symptoms. One trait that Benadryl and alcohol have in common is that they both depress your central nervous system CNS. The depression of your CNS can cause decreased heart rate, slow your rate of breathing, loss of consciousness and can lead to a coma in rare cases.
The risk of falling unconscious is one of the main reasons why combining alcohol and Benadryl often leads to personal injury. When you mix Benadryl with alcohol, dehydration caused by both substances hit you at the same time.
Benadryl is the brand-name version of an antihistamine called diphenhydramine. An antihistamine is a drug that interferes with the action of the compound histamine in your body. This can ease your allergy symptoms. But Benadryl is a strong drug, and it comes with risks.
One risk is the severe effects it can cause if you take it with alcohol. But both drugs work on your central nervous system CNS , which is made up of your brain and spinal cord. Benadryl and alcohol are both CNS depressants. These are drugs that slow down your CNS. Taking them together is dangerous because they can slow down your CNS too much. This can cause drowsiness, sedation, and trouble doing physical and mental tasks that require alertness. Benadryl is approved to treat allergy symptoms only.
This is because Benadryl causes drowsiness. In fact, the generic form of Benadryl, diphenhydramine, is approved as a sleep aid. Some people may think alcohol can serve the same role, since it can also make you sleepy.
This misuse of Benadryl and alcohol may actually make you dizzy and prevent you from sleeping through the night. Benadryl may also interact negatively with sleep aids and other medications.
So, to be safe, you should only use Benadryl to treat your allergy symptoms. However, doctors do not typically recommend this. Always consult a doctor or medical professional before using Benadryl as a sleep aid. Since Benadryl can react dangerously with other substances, using other medications for sleep aid is usually the best route. The combination of Benadryl and alcohol can lead to a heavily sedated state and result in trouble with thinking.
However, the combination is unlikely to cause a fatal overdose. Most of the danger arises when an individual who has taken both attempts to drive or operate machinery. Since the state induced by Benadryl and alcohol is similar to a very drunk state, attempting to drive brings all the risks of drunk driving. The half-life of a substance is the length of time it takes before half of it is gone.
Individuals with kidney or liver problems may need to wait even longer, as their bodies cannot eliminate the substance as quickly. The best way to avoid a potentially unpleasant mix of Benadryl with alcohol is to wait for one to completely leave the body before taking the other. Uncontrollable shaking is a rare side effect of alcohol consumption, but it is also one of the side effects of an overdose on alcohol and Benadryl.
Each person may react differently to both alcohol and Benadryl, so it is important to know all of the potential side effects of an overdose. Usually overdoses occur when the side effects of a drug overpower the nervous system, causing a shutdown of bodily processes.
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