Written by Stacia Woodcock, PharmD | Reviewed by Alyssa Billingsley, PharmDUpdated on June 25, 2024 Key takeaways: It’s best to avoid combining melatonin and alcohol. If you take them together, you have a higher risk of excessive drowsiness and impaired thinking. It’s also unlikely that melatonin will be able to combat the sleep problems caused...
News Release 14-Aug-2024 Peer-Reviewed PublicationIndiana University School of Medicine Between 2015 and 2019, excessive alcohol use resulted in over 140,000 deaths and 3.6 million years of potential life lost annually in the United States, making it the fourth leading cause of preventable death in the country. Despite these staggering numbers, only 4% — approximately 1.4...
News Release 8-Aug-2024 Study among first to examine link between alcohol use and severe head trauma Peer-Reviewed PublicationFlorida Atlantic University image: Daily alcohol use was associated with 150% increased odds of a brain bleed in older adults after a head trauma from a fall. Credit: Florida Atlantic University Nationally, falls remain the leading cause of...
JUNE 6, 2024 by Monica Swahn and Ritu Aneja, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainDid you know that casual drinks with friends or having a “wine mom” moment to unwind could actually be nudging up your risk for breast cancer? It sounds like a buzzkill. But it’s a truth that many might not know: Alcohol...
by Higher Education Press The proposed model of hepatic TRPC3-regulated ALD. Credit: Qinchao Ding, Rui Guo, Liuyi Hao, Qing Song, Ai Fu, Shanglei Lai, Tiantian Xu, Hui Zhuge, Kaixin Chang, Yanli Chen, Haibin Wei, Daxi Ren, Zhaoli Sun, Zhenyuan Song, Xiaobing Dou, Songtao LiExcessive alcohol intake is strongly associated with alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) which...
by Samuel J. White and Philippe B. Wilson, The Conversation Credit: Darlene Alderson from Pexels Some people get allergy-like symptoms when drinking alcohol, but can you really be allergic to alcohol? Alcohol allergies are rare, with documented cases primarily involving a rash. However, what often perplexes people are the symptoms that mimic allergies, such as wheezing,...
Written by Nicole E. Cieri-Hutcherson, PharmD, BCPS, NCMP | Reviewed by Joshua Murdock, PharmD, BCBBS Key takeaways: If you can’t sleep, over-the-counter (OTC) sleep aids like diphenhydramine (ZzzQuil, Benadryl), doxylamine (Unisom), and melatonin might help. But there are a few things to know about taking them safely.Avoid mixing OTC sleeping pills with alcohol and other...
by Vincent Ho, The Conversation Credit: CC0 Public DomainAs we enter the festive season it’s a good time to think about what all those celebratory alcoholic drinks can do to your gut. Alcohol can interfere with the time it takes for food to go through your gut (also known as the “transit time”). In particular, it...
by Taylor & Francis Credit: CC0 Public Domain The trend among younger children to frequently drink caffeinated soda may indicate higher risk of alcohol consumption in the future, new research suggests. In a study of over 2,000 US children, aged between just nine to ten, those who reported drinking caffeinated soda daily were found a year...
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY SEATTLE, Wash. – A boom in alcohol sales during the pandemic appears to have had dire consequences for some as hospital admissions for alcohol-related hepatitis, a life-threatening liver inflammation, increased dramatically, according to a study of national hospitalization data. Researchers found increasing cases of the alcohol-related liver illness from 2016 through 2020,...
