What are the drugs that cause coma?

Everyone knows that medicine is a very important thing in life. It can cure diseases and save lives and has many benefits to the body. However, some medicines can bring side effects to the body. As the saying goes, "All medicines are poisonous". For example, some medicines are toxic and excessive use can cause harm to the body. Among them, dizziness is one of the common manifestations. Let's take a look at the drugs that can make people coma.

In general, we would consider using sleeping pills. Currently, the most commonly used ones are benzodiazepines. Because there are many types of sleeping pills, and the strength of their effects are also different, if the medication you are using now is not effective, you can consider changing the medication, or combined medication treatment, which may also be helpful.

In addition to sleeping pills, another drug that can cause people to become comatose and sleepy is anesthetics. However, patients are not allowed to purchase and use anesthetics casually. They must be treated by a doctor.

Central nervous system depressant-induced coma is a type of pituitary crisis and pituitary stroke crisis. That is, when the anterior pituitary gland is hypofunctioning, adrenal cortex hormones and thyroid hormones are deficient, and the body's stress response ability is reduced, the crisis may be induced in cases of infection, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, cold, hunger, etc., and by the use of sleeping pills or anesthetics. Pituitary tumors suddenly experience intratumoral hemorrhage, infarction, necrosis, and tumor enlargement, causing acute neuroendocrine lesions called pituitary stroke.

The following are some methods to prevent coma induced by central nervous system depressants:

1. Strengthen physical exercise to enhance the ability to resist infection.

2. Adjust your diet reasonably to ensure comprehensive nutrition while preventing overnutrition that leads to obesity. Avoid smoking and drinking.

3. Avoid long-term contact with chemical poisons. For patients who have been taking isoniazid, phenytoin sodium, chloroquine, sulfonamide and other drugs for a long time, they should stop taking the drugs immediately if they find any signs of this disease.

4. During daily care and health care, the extremities need to be kept warm and burns must be prevented. During the acute infection period, in addition to paralysis of the limbs, respiratory muscle paralysis may also occur, and the patient should be sent to the hospital for emergency treatment immediately.