Energy Drinks with Alcohol

Growing popularity of energy drinks notwithstanding, the consumption of energy drinks by youngsters has reached a different level all together. Recently a new trend has come up in the consumption of energy drinks. I am sure most of you reading this already know about it. Mixing energy drinks with alcohol has become a rage now amongst college students and youngsters. Now this combination might seem to be really fantastic and having these together seems to be thrilling as ever. It is actually not as great and awesome as it feels, when you actually think about it. The main glitch in this combination is their inherently opposite core properties. The text to come will elaborate more on this topic.

The Opposites Don't Attract Here

For starters, to understand why mixing these two could be potentially dangerous for you, we need to know what are the core properties of energy drinks and alcohol. Now energy drinks are basically stimulants and alcohol is a depressant. Then fundamentally what you are doing when you mix the two is asking the body to deal with two effects which are opposite. At one end, the energy drink is stimulating your senses and on the other, alcohol is doing its work. You are in this case burdening and overloading your body with heavy stimulants and heavy depressants. Many studies have conclusively proven the fact that energy drinks with alcohol are a disaster for your body. Let's see what the effects of mixing the two.

Side Effects of Alcoholic Energy Drinks

Heart Problems
The caffeine content in energy drinks is considerable, increasing the blood pressure in the body. This may lead to pronounced heart palpitations. That, turn can be linked to creating problems in heart's natural rhythm. Then, there is alcohol, which too has negative effects on heart.

Less Intoxication - More Consumption
Alcohol mixed with energy drinks leads the person to feel that he or she is not intoxicated or less intoxicated. But actually you are intoxicated and under the effect of the mixture, only you do not feel it. Consequently you drink more than you and your body can handle.

Magnanimity of the Effects
Studies have shown that even if the alcohol content is less it has harmful effects on the body when mixed with an energy drink. If you just have too much if alcohol, you will have a hangover, a bit of headache, that's it. Having too much of alcohol mixed with energy drink can lead to worse effects like nausea, fatigue and real bad headaches and will culminate in other

Dehydration
Alcoholic energy drinks can aggravate the dehydration caused by alcohol. Both alcohol and one of the major ingredients of energy drinks - caffeine being diuretics, a person urinates more than normal, causing dehydration. That is because he or she is not able to retain fluids.

Nervous System Effects
When you give someone opposite things to deal with, that person gets totally confused and would not know how to react. Even if he or she may react, it may not exactly be right for the three of them. The same thing happens to a person's nervous system when it gets mixed signals to deal with conflicting effects of energy drinks with alcohol. As mentioned earlier, energy drinks act as stimulants and alcohol as a depressant. Thus, what alcohol does to your body, is nothing as compared to the situation when you mix the two.

Last, but not the least, the fatigue caused by having only alcohol is masked. This keeps the person alert and go for more alcohol, which can be disastrous for the body. Later on it may culminate in alcohol addiction.

Further, many times people do not know about the ingredients in the energy drinks and their interactions with alcohol, which may lead to complications later on. So keeping the alcoholic energy drinks away! Take care!