What to do if you take too many sleeping pills

Sleeping pills are commonly used sedatives, and if too much is taken, it depends on the type of sleeping pills. The length of sleeping pills sedation has medium, weak and strong effects. If a patient takes sleeping pills in excess and produces symptoms of ripe sleep, drowsiness, or even coma, he or she should be seen in the hospital for gastric lavage and maintenance of vital signs. If slightly more sleeping pills, the patient is still in a state of basic wakefulness, such as when you can wake up, there is still a reaction to the outside world, if not strong sleeping pills, sedative strength is not strong in this case can be observed, you can speed up the excretion more, such as drinking more water, diuretic, with excited tea water can be. Common folk antidotes are sugar, mung beans, licorice, all of which can play a diuretic role to remove toxins. If the patient’s symptoms of poisoning are heavy and sedation is too deep, it is still necessary to go to the hospital for further treatment. Depending on the type of sleeping drug, such as strong or weak tranquilizers, the length of the half-life of tranquilizers, excretion rate, etc., different antidotes are used according to the characteristics of its type.