Coffee masks drunkenness

Ample libations at the table often "relax" over the desired people. It is believed that a cup of coffee helps to gather strength and will sober up. However, scientists from the United States have found that because of the coffee, we sometimes just do not notice how much are "out of shape". And it is fraught with tragic consequences.

In the study, researchers from the University of Temple in Philadelphia found: although caffeine has a tonic influence of this effect it is completely useless against intoxication. The study's author Toms Gould says: "The myth about coffee freshen the nip force should dispel! Simultaneous use coffee and alcohol   It leads to the fact that people simply do not notice much of its intoxication While continuing to drink. Coffee masks alcohol intoxication alcohol, but I do not fight with her. Much better in this situation experience headache, weakness and nausea. Here at least you know that already, "to get their dose of" time to stop. "

In other words, with the help of coffee a person may "be drunk" to the hardest alcohol poisoning Because caffeine hides the negative aspects of drinking, but in no way removes toxins from the blood. The scientists put experiments on mice that were given ethanol to cause a tendency to alcoholism. Then in front of them placed special traps to check the speed of reaction.

Ethanol is used instead of a mouse caffeine tended to drink more alcohol, which is why more often fall into the snares. The study is published in the journal Behavioural Neuroscience.

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