Is it okay to sleep after drinking?

During festivals or social gatherings, everyone has to drink. Drinking in moderation is also necessary on these occasions, but sometimes when people are happy they tend to forget the rules and this leads to some people drinking excessively during festivals and becoming drunk. Because being drunk makes the body feel tired and the nerves are in an unclear state, it often makes people want to sleep. Will sleeping after drinking alcohol have any physical effects?

Is it good to sleep after drinking?

Don't go to bed immediately after drinking. After people drink alcohol, alcohol has a direct paralyzing and relaxing effect on the upper airway muscles. At this time, the originally narrow airway will collapse and block repeatedly, the nasal mucosa will become congested and swollen, and sleep apnea will occur frequently.

How does alcoholic liver disease come about? You can tell from the name. Alcohol is digested by the liver. If you go to sleep immediately, the body's metabolism will slow down, which is not good for the liver and makes you more likely to get alcoholic liver disease.

It is recommended to wash your face with cold water after drinking, and then sit and rest for a while. If you drink too much, don't let them fall asleep naturally. If you have severe alcohol poisoning, you may not wake up from your sleep. In this case, family members should stay by your side, wake up the drunk person every two hours, and feed him some boiled water until he is completely sober.

What is the best sleeping position after drinking?

1. Lie flat

Vomitus is likely to flow back into the trachea, causing aspiration pneumonia in mild cases and tracheal obstruction and death from suffocation in severe cases.

2. Prone

This causes obstruction of the oral and nasal breathing passages, and compression of the chest and abdomen, which further restricts breathing, leading to hypoxia in the body and worsening coma.

3. Seat

People who are deeply drunk are prone to hypotension. Sitting is not conducive to blood supply to the brain, nor is it conducive to blood return to the lower body, which further reduces the blood supply to important organs such as the heart, brain, and kidneys, and may even lead to shock.

To sum up, if you want to sleep after drinking, the correct way to do it is to untie the drunk person's tie and belt and lift his chin. Tilt your head back, keep your breathing unobstructed, and lie on your side to prevent vomit from regurgitating.

What should you pay attention to when sleeping after drinking?

1. If you still use a pillow of the same height as before after getting drunk, or even higher than usual, it may block your airway and cause snoring. Snoring is not a big problem, but it means that the airway is blocked and there is a risk of suffocation, so it is worth being vigilant.

2. Family members should choose a low pillow for the drunk person and let him lie flat. This can make the respiratory tract more unobstructed and reduce the risk of suffocation.

3. If the other person is already drunk and unconscious, there must be someone to take care of him/her to prevent the drunk person from vomiting suddenly, which would cause the vomit to enter the lungs and cause the risk of suffocation.

4. Many people like to sleep on the sofa after returning home. This is a very dangerous way of sleeping. The body sinks deeply into the sofa, which is most likely to cause suffocation.

5. When drinking too much, the body's temperature regulation function is disturbed, heat loss increases, and people can easily feel cold. You should keep warm at this time, but don't sleep with an electric blanket, especially if you have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as hypertension and coronary heart disease.

6. After drinking, blood vessels dilate, heart rate and metabolism will accelerate, blood pressure will rise, and it is easy to induce diseases such as myocardial infarction and angina pectoris.

7. If you feel cold, you can use a down quilt or a hot water bottle to keep warm and drink more hot water, but the temperature should not be too high to avoid burns.

8. Don’t drink a lot of coffee after drinking to avoid aggravating dehydration.

9. Don’t drink strong tea, as it makes the heart overly excited and is bad for the kidneys.

10. Don’t drink soda, otherwise it will speed up the body’s absorption of alcohol, which is bad for the liver and can also induce acute gastritis.

11. Especially do not take medicine when you are drunk. Alcohol will react chemically with most drugs to produce toxic substances. In particular, you should avoid taking antipyretics, otherwise the hydroxyphenylacetamide in them will produce toxic substances, which will cause liver inflammation and even permanent damage. If you need to take it, it is recommended to take ibuprofen 1 hour in advance the next morning. In addition, it is best not to take cephalosporin antibiotics, hypoglycemic drugs, antihypertensive drugs, etc.

12. Taking a shower after drinking alcohol not only fails to sober you up, but can cause even more serious harm. Neither cold water nor hot water is suitable. Taking a hot bath or taking a sauna can easily cause heat to accumulate in the body and not dissipate, aggravating the state of drunkenness, leading to severe vomiting and even fainting. Taking a cold shower not only fails to sober you up, but it also makes it impossible for the liver to replenish the glucose consumed in the blood. In addition, the cold water stimulates the blood vessels and constricts them, which may lead to blood vessel rupture, colds, etc.