Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) should be avoided for sleep due to risks similar to sleeping pills. — Whalespan
Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) should be avoided for sleep due to risks similar to sleeping pills.
⚠ High risk
We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“there's a little bit of evidence that benadryl induced sleep also has some of the risks associated with it that sleeping pills have it's less potent in terms of that bad consequence and outcome to sleep but the bad consequence and outcome remains statistically significant in those reports so i would shy away from things like benadryl as well”
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