Do relaxation drinks have any drug interactions?
Relaxation drinks contain herbals and hormones, so they can have drug interactions, especially with alcohol and medications that cause sedation or sleep aids. Watch internist and sleep expert Carol Ash, DO, discuss these dangerous drug interactions.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] CAROL ASH: Relaxation drinks have herbals and they also have hormones in them, so you want to be careful.
There certainly can be some drug interactions. [WHOOSHING]
The problem with the relaxation drinks-- there's quite a number of them, over 300 relaxation drinks currently on the market.
In addition to that, they haven't been out that long. So as more people start to take these relaxation drinks, we're going to start to see effects
that we hadn't anticipated. [WHOOSH] You have to be very careful if you are on medications that might cause sedation or sleepiness not
to mix them together, and that would include things like alcohol. And one of the substances that can be in these drinks, kava,
you also want to be careful if you have liver problems, and you want to avoid Tylenol with that particular substance. So read the labels, do some homework,
and if you're not sure, reach out to your own doctor. [WHOOSH] If you're taking sleep aids, you want to be careful because the two together
can have a combined effect. Now, remember, these relaxation drinks, when you use them as part of a relaxing bedtime routine,
they're helping to prepare you for sleep, not actually induce sleep. In addition to that, each one of these relaxation drinks
has different ingredients, and they don't often tell you exactly how much of a particular ingredient is in the drink.
You want to make sure that you avoid these drinks if you're using a sleeping aid. You want to avoid them if you're using alcohol. [WHOOSHING]
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