Sleeping pills
What Are Sleeping Pills?
A sleeping pill may be effective at ending your sleep problems short-term. But it's important to make sure you understand everything you need to know about sleeping pills and is side effect.
Most sleeping pills are classified as "sedative hypnotics." That's a specific class of drugs used to induce and/or maintain sleep. Sedative hypnotics include benzodiazepines, barbiturates, and various hypnotics.
Benzodiazepines such as Xanax, Valium, Ativan, and Librium are anti-anxiety medications. They also increase drowsiness and help people sleep. Halcion is an older benzodiazepine sedative-hypnotic medicine that has largely been replaced by newer medicines? While these drugs may be useful short-term, all benzodiazepines are potentially addictive and can cause problems with memory and attention. They are usually not recommended for long-term treatment of sleeping problems.
Barbiturates, another drug in this sedative-hypnotic class, depress the central nervous system and can cause sedation. Short- or long-acting barbiturates are prescribed as sedatives or sleeping pills. But more commonly, these hypnotic drugs are limited to use as anaesthesia. They can be fatal in overdose.
Newer medications help reduce the time it takes to fall asleep. Some of these sleep-inducing drugs, which bind to the same receptors in the brain as do benzodiazepines, include Lunesta, Sonata, and Ambien. They are somewhat less likely than benzodiazepines to be habit-forming, but over time can still sometimes cause physical dependence. They can work quickly to increase drowsiness and sleep. Another sleep aid, called Rozerem, acts differently from other sleep medicines by affecting a brain hormone called melatonin, and is not habit-forming. Belsomra is another unique sleep aid that affects a brain chemical called orexin, and is not addictive or habit-forming. Another sleep medicine that is not habit-forming, Silenor, is a low-dose form of the tricyclic antidepressant doxepin.
What Are the Side Effects of Sleeping Pills?
Your doctor may be able to alert you to the possibility of side effects if you have asthma or other health conditions. Sleeping pills can interfere with normal breathing and can be dangerous in people who have certain chronic lung problems such as asthma , emphysema, or forms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Common side effects of prescription sleeping pills such as Lunesta, Sonata, Ambien, Rozerem and Halcion may include:
Burning or tingling in the hands, arms, feet, or legs
Changes in appetite
Difficulty keeping balance
Impairment the next day
Mental slowing or problems with attention or memory
Stomach pain or tenderness
Uncontrollable shaking of a part of the body
Unusual dreams
Weakness
It's important to be aware of possible sleeping pill side effects so you can stop the drug and call your doctor immediately to avoid a more serious health problem.
Q.1. What is mean by "sedative hypnotics."?
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Q.2. write the name of two drugs used as a sleeping pill.
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Q.3. Common side effects of sleeping pills such as (any four)
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Q.4. Sleeping pills can interfere with normal breathing and can be dangerous in people who have certain chronic lung problems such ----------- and -----------
Q.5. What message you will get after reading this para? Write down about it.
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Full Credit: - specific class of drugs used to induce and/or maintain sleep Nil Credit: - No answer or any wrong answer
Full Credit: - Any two
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Full Credit: - any four
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Full Credit: - asthma , emphysema
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Full credit- health related awareness