There are many ways to try and stay awake in situations that require your alertness. You may be in class or at work or you may be driving your car. Staying awake in these situations is pretty important if not crucial for your safety. There are chemical and medicinal ways to stay alert such as caffeine drinks and there are mechanical ways such as using a drowsy driver alert device. The method that you choose may or may not have an impact on your health. Knowing the side effects is important if you will be implementing a certain method regularly.

Chemical Ways to Stay Awake

When you are in a pinch for how to stay awake, most people choose caffeine as their drug of choice. Caffeine is most popular in coffee but is now being used heavily in energy drinks that have become the fad in the last few years. While both of these drinks are fine when taken in moderation, they can have side effects. Energy drinks in particular often contain much more caffeine than coffee and can give you the jitters as well as as as a post drink headache from the excessive sugar. While some people will get the desired energy boost with no problems, others may experience an elevated heart rate as well as increased blood pressure. Both of these factors put you at risk for blood clots which can actually be life threatening. People with known high blood pressure and certainly with a history of heart disease should never drink energy drinks. Healthy people are OK most of the time but studies have shown that they do experience the physiological boosts mentioned above which are not healthy on a regular basis.

Caffeine withdrawal is a real physiological response to changing your caffeine intake. If you get used to caffeine as a way to stay awake or to wake up, when you don’t have any you can get a withdrawal headache. If you are used to drinking 5 cups of coffee a day to stay awake during your night shift, when your day off comes around and you don’t drink as much, you very well may get a nasty withdrawal headache.

A Mechanical Method to Stay Awake

Another way to help you stay awake is to use a device that will sound an alarm or beep if you start to nod off. An alert device can be a much healthier option for people who don’t want or can’t drink caffeinated drinks. Alert devices come in different sizes so it is important to find one that is comfortable. They can be placed behind your ear or around your wrist. A keep awake ear piece is more effective especially for drivers as they react to your head falling forward, the motion that occurs as you start to nod off to sleep. These stay awake gadgets were patterned after medical alert devices. Those are the devices that people with medical conditions or elderly people wear. Usually the person has to push a button to activate their medical alert device and it sends a message to a central command that dispatches an emergency responder. Others work more on the premise of a stay awake alert device in that they respond to a physiological change in the body.

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