Can you take a sleeping pill after drinking

After drinking alcohol, it is not recommended that patients take sleeping pills to improve sleep, because drinking a small amount of alcohol has an excitatory effect on the brain, and sleeping pills play a role in inhibiting the central nervous system in order to achieve the effect of sleep, the effect of drinking alcohol and sleeping pills will cancel each other out. If you drink a lot of alcohol, the central nervous system is the first to produce excitement after the inhibitory effect, and then take sleeping pills, two inhibitory effects, superimposed on each other, easily lead to drowsiness, drowsiness, and even life-threatening situation, after drinking alcohol is not recommended to take oral sleeping pills. The alcohol consumption should be moderate, for insomnia patients, from the diet and lifestyle adjustments.