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Beware of the Sleeping Pill Stilnox
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung February 21st, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleeping Pills.
If you are into the need to use sleeping pills, be on the lookout for Stilnox which has reportedly changed labels. Also known as Zolpidem, can affect people in the form of sleep-walking and sleep-driving. Hence, the manufacturers are being ordered to provide warning labels and have been categorized as a schedule 4 prescription medicine. The main reason here was to avoid potential abuse and illegal use of the said sleeping pill.
In 2000, Stilnox became the first product containing zolpidem to be marketed in Australia. To January 4, 2008, the TGA had received 1032 reports of suspected reactions to zolpidem products, most received over the past 12 months and relating to sleep-walking, sleep-eating and sleep-driving.
The TGA will meet the National Prescribing Service to discuss additional educational materials for prescribers, emphasising the need to use sleeping medicines only where clinically indicated, and for short periods of time.
(Source) Herald Sun Australia
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Zolpidem Awakens Comatose Patient
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung November 3rd, 2007 in SLEEP News, Sleep Events, Sleep Issues.
Sleeping pills have been known to help people sleep better. However, to awaken them from deep slumbers such as being comatose for some years will draw mixed reactions. It can either be hilarious or strange. It may also do harm with regards to the credibility of the sleeping pill called Zolpidem distributed under the Ambien brand.
“When she takes the pill, I see her face relax and the old sparkle return to her eyes,” her mother, Thelma Pickard said. “It’s incredible.”
The woman’s case is described on “The Waking Pill,” a BBC documentary that aired on Wednesday of this week.
She is one of 360 patients around the world in a trial on using zolpidem for coma patients. The pill’s usefulness was first discovered in 1999 when a young South African, Louis Viljoen, who had been comatose for five years, was given a pill and awoke instead of going to sleep…
Source: Report: Sleeping Pill Appears to Awaken Woman from Coma
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Herbal Sleeping Pills can be Addictive
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung August 17th, 2007 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, Insomnia, SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Issues, Sleeping Pills.
It is a foregone conclusion that relying heavily on sleeping pills can make a person very much reliant towards them. While some may beg to disagree, hard luck people who have trouble sleeping in Canada have turned to herbal remedies to aid their sleeping disorder with the hope of getting sustainable sleeping periods in the process as well.
Sleepes is one prescribed herbal sleeping pill that has been spread throughout Canada. However, the bad news here is that once people stop taking them, the after-effects start to set in. Insomnia and depression instances start to creep in adding more misery to the already borne sleeping problem people are having to date.
“My insomnia became total for about two weeks, meaning I was lucky if I got an hour or two of sleep a night. Then I had several months of feeling hopeless and not wanting to live,” she says.
The whole article can be read here in full: Herbal Sleeping Pills Contain Prescription Meds
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