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What Causes Cold Sweats, White Complexion And Dizziness After Night Drinking?
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After a night of drinking, even if it was 1 or 2 drinks only. I will get up in the middle of night to either go to bathroom or get a glass of water, and I have to lay on the floor for like 30 mins other wise i will pass out. I start getting cold sweats my complexion becomes white as a ghost, and I get dizzy. I sometimes fall back asleep wherever I was going to pass out, like the bathroom floor, kitchen floor, just because I can not get up! What causes this...??
After a night of drinking, even if it was 1 or 2 drinks only. I will get up in the middle of night to either go to bathroom or get a glass of water, and I have to lay on the floor for like 30 mins other wise i will pass out. I start getting cold sweats my complexion becomes white as a ghost, and I get dizzy. I sometimes fall back asleep wherever I was going to pass out, like the bathroom floor, kitchen floor, just because I can not get up! What causes this...??
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Thu, 13 Mar 2014
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Alcohol is a diuretic. It dries you out. IN this context (and much more so if you have vomiting!) your fluid level drops, the blood pressure drops, and the blood doesn't get to your brain and you feel faint/fall over.
Taking in a decent amount of water (under a gallon... 1-2 liters ) gradually over 1-2 hrs fixes it in most people
Taking in a decent amount of water (under a gallon... 1-2 liters ) gradually over 1-2 hrs fixes it in most people
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