Why are you drunk when drinking coffee?

Drinking too much coffee is easy to get drunk, with symptoms of insomnia, headache, dizziness, irritability, fever, confusion, chest tightness.

Huynh Thao, a second-year student at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh City, often drinks coffee to help his mind stay awake. Recently, Thao drank coffee when she was stunned, dazed and dizzy. She went to the doctor to see if she was drunk .

Dr. Phan My Hanh, Saigon Mind General Hospital explained that coffee drinking is a situation of caffine overdose in coffee. High levels of caffeine can cause serious health problems such as arrhythmias (increased heart rate, atrial fibrillation) and seizures, hormonal imbalances. If you rarely consume caffeine, your body may be particularly sensitive to it, so avoid taking too much at once.

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Coffee drunk often has symptoms of dizziness, diarrhea, thirst, insomnia, headache, fever, irritability. Severe cases often cause dyspnea, vomiting, hallucinations, confusion, tightness in the chest, abnormal or rapid heartbeat, the incontinence of motor, convulsions. Some mild symptoms such as nausea and muscle spasms. More severe can be accompanied by vomiting, rapid breathing and shock. According to Hanh, babies may also have an overdose of caffeine because breast milk contains too much caffeine.

Dr. Hanh recommends that every day for healthy adults drink caffeine 400mg. Caffeine overdose can occur if you drink more than this amount. Teenagers should take less than 100 mg of caffeine every day. Pregnant women limit caffeine.

The half-life in the blood of caffeine ranges from 1.5 to 9.5 hours, when the level of caffeine in your blood decreases to half of the original amount. So you need:

1. Monitor your body's response to determine how much you have been drinking.
2. Only about 250 mg should be taken daily if you are unsure about your body's tolerance.
3. Do not drink caffeine in the late afternoon to avoid sleep problems.
4. Reduce the amount of coffee or switch to tea if there are digestive problems.
5. If you feel your blood pressure increases, your heart rate changes, cut and reduce the amount of coffee you are using.

How to handle when drunk

When coffee is drunk, it is best to drink water and rest. It is the loss of water due to sweating, increased salivation during coffee making you more tired. Resting helps your heart rate have a balanced chance, will lessen the feeling of restlessness, nausea, tremor and limbs .

When coffee is drunk, it is best to drink water and rest.

In addition, you should warm your hands and feet; press some acupuncture points such as sun pressure points (both sides of the forehead), sugar presses (middle of the forehead), cysts (the top of the head), and maintain (the back of the neck, the sides of the nape of the neck, close to the hairline).

If your heartbeat is beating too fast and strong, causing discomfort, you can make lemonade-ginger-sugar. Warm phase, drink slowly. Lemon juice-ginger-sugar works to stabilize the heartbeat.

Absolutely should not cure drunken coffee by drinking tea because tea also contains caffeine, which can make symptoms worse.

If symptoms are mild, you can wait until caffeine is no longer in your body or self-treat like drinking plenty of water, doing light exercise.

Eat lots of foods high in potassium or magnesium, such as bananas or dark green leafy vegetables.

If you are worse, you should go to the doctor or go to the hospital for active treatment such as drinking activated carbon, washing the stomach and monitoring your heart rate, breathing oxygen as needed.