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What are the side effects of CNS depressants?
Especially when taken in excess, CNS depressants can cause confusion and dizziness, and impair judgment, memory, intellectual performance, and motor coordination.
What is Xanax and the effects?
Alprazolam (xanax) is a benzodiazapine primarily used for the treatment anxiety disorders and can also used for sedation. Benzodiazapines exert their effects through the interaction with GABA receptors in the CNS ultimately enhancing the effects of GABA, an inhibitory neurotransmitter. Side effects of alprazolam likely stem from the depressant activity on the cns, eg. drowsiness.
Why are CNS depressants addictive?
The body tends to develop tolerance for CNS depressants, and larger doses are needed to achieve the same effects.
What is the maximum CNS effect of caffeine is reached about after drinking coffee?
Maximum CNS effects are no9t reached for about two hours , but can begin with in 30 mins
What metabolic product of meperidine normeperidine makes this drug inappropriate for long term use because of the what?
Neurotoxicity, risk of CNS adverse effects
What herbal medications should not be used with CNS depressants?
Certain herbal remedies, such as Valerian and Kava, may dangerously exacerbate the effects of certain CNS depressants
How does a barbiturate work?
Barbitturates communly known as CNS depressants, they show their action by stimulation the inhibitory pathway in CNS i.e they stimulate GABA (gamma Aminobutyric acid) there by decreasing the excitation of Cns and causes sedation or hypnosis.
Can Valium and Zolpidem be taken together?
Only if your doctor recommends that they be taken together. Otherwise, taking these two medications concomitantly may produce excessive CNS depression. Zolpidem is a nonbenzodiazepine of the imidazopyridine class, but its effects may be mediated by the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Because it shares this mode of action with the benzodiazepine temazepam, there is a high risk for exaggerated CNS side effects including dizziness, confusion, light-headedness, headache, etc. and CNS depression, which may be life threatening.
Is augmentin an amphetamine?
No - Augmentin is an antibiotic. It has no CNS stimulating effects. Possible side effects include diarrhea, nausea (with possible vomiting), thrush, and skin rash. The only one of those it shares with amphetamines is nausea - but it also shares that with alcohol, food poisoning, and pregnancy...
What degenerative disease of the CNS causes weakness and other muscular symptoms?
Multiple Sclerosis
Can multiple CNS depressants be used together?
When mixed together, CNS depressants tend to amplify each other's effects, which can cause severely reduced heart rate and even death.
Can you take soma and Tylenol with codeine?
Yes. Soma (also known as Carisoprodol) is a CNS muscle relaxant, and therefore will not cause any unwanted side effects when paired with an opioid pain killer, such as Tylenol 3.
