Are you taking Prescription medication?

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Inform others of the effect that Medication, Alcohol and or other substances have on the system while diving

If your under any prescribed medication on a daily bases:

Consult your physician as they know your conditions and can run a checkup. As to whether you can participate in scuba diving. And the effect the medicine may have on you; once the drug wears out either underwater or inland.

If you've been prescribed Sudafed?

Avoid the use of Nitrox, the gas can or may trigger a reaction while diving with Nitrox, affecting your dive. As other impairments such as: alcohol, medications and mixer or combination of either or all. Which under water leads to narcosis ( rapture of the deep, Martini's effect, inert gas narcosis and nitrogen narcosis. A slight sense avoid deeper dives than 30m as the condition becomes more noticeable.

Please share your experiences!!! Being aware is Diving wise.

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DAN Divers Alert Network : CNS Considerations in Scuba Diving

 

[Bubbletrubble]

If you've been prescribed Sudafed?

In the U.S., Sudafed does not require a prescription. I realize that other countries throughout the world may have different practices.

FWIW, your warnings about avoiding the use of nitrox while taking Sudafed are somewhat misleading. Yes, there is a theoretical risk of lowering the oxygen toxicity threshold for a diver taking CNS stimulants, such as the sympathomimetic pseudoephedrine. However, there is no actual evidence that supports a cause-and-effect relationship between dosing with pseudoephedrine and suffering from oxygen toxicity while breathing a recreational nitrox mix.

Please read Dr. Thalmann's essay entitled "Pseudoephedrine & Enriched-Air Diving?" It's published on the Divers Alert Network website.

I do agree that there are many prescription medications out there that may present certain risks to a diver being subjected to greater ambient pressure and exerting himself strenuously while on a dive. When in doubt, divers should speak to a dive-savvy physician about their concerns.

 

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