Coffee makes drunkenness worse

According to a recent study, drinking coffee while you are drunk does not make you more alert but will affect your judgment.

The study also found that common drinks containing caffeine are at risk of exacerbating intoxication, rather than falling as people thought.

The research team of Dr. Thomas Gould, of Temple University in Philadelphia, USA, conducted tests on mice, with the following results:

Drinking coffee while you are drunk does not make you more alert but will affect your judgment.(Photo: Telegraph)

Mice that are only allowed to drink will be less restless, move more, but have trouble recognizing their ability to evade objects that may harm them.

When you only give your mouse coffee, they will become more restless, move less, and be aware of their surroundings even if they are poor.

If they drink both alcohol and coffee at the same time, alcohol will prevent the ability of coffee to help rats, but not reverse the effect of limiting cognitive ability caused by alcohol.

As a result, alcohol eases the restlessness of caffeine, making animals more comfortable but reducing their ability to avoid threats.

In people, when drinking alcohol at the same time as coffee, it is the ability to awake of coffee that makes you unaware that you are drunk, or think that you are just drunk and can perform normal functions. So easy to lead to unfortunate consequences.

"People who drink only, will feel tired and drunk, and are more likely to identify themselves as being drunk," Dr. Gould said. "On the contrary, people who drink alcohol and coffee at the same time may feel alert and able to handle situations that are likely to be harmful, such as driving while drunk or putting themselves in dangerous social situations ".

Dr. Gould thinks that the combination of alcoholic drinks is skyrocketing in popularity. Accompanying are bad impacts such as driving when drunk, sexual misconduct .

"The key is, despite the enjoyment of being able to stay up all night drinking, all the evidence points to the serious dangers associated with the use of alcohol and coffee," Gould said. more.

So far, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has only allowed caffeine to be added to non-alcoholic drinks at a rate of less than 200 parts per million, and does not accept adding caffeine to any beverage. alcoholic

In November 2009, FDA sent letters to 30 factories, asking them to prove that these drinks and alcohol combinations are safe and legal under FDA regulations.