People with normal lung function who take alprazolam in moderation are generally not harmful to the lungs, but people with lung disease may take alprazolam to be harmful to the lungs or have some damage to lung function.
Alprazolam belongs to the sedative class of drugs, can play a sedative hypnotic effect, can promote the patient’s sleep. For people with normal lung function, the drug does not usually affect the lungs when used appropriately.
For people with lung disease, taking Alprazolam may have some effect, because Alprazolam can affect the center, which may lead to coughing up sputum weakly, not conducive to coughing up sputum, thus affecting the lungs.
In addition alprazolam inhibits the respiratory center, may make the respiratory function is impaired, aggravate the patient’s respiratory failure. Therefore, for people with obvious respiratory failure, especially type II respiratory failure, without the use of respiratory support therapy, generally need to be cautious or not use Alprazolam.
Alprazolam should be used under the supervision of a medical professional.