How safe are sleeping pills?

11 September, 2012

To overcome the problem of sleepless nights, you opt for sleeping pills, but did you ever think about their safety? Read on to find out how sleeping pills could make you sleep for ever.

SLEEPING PILLS are generally used to treat insomnia and anxiety. The most commonly used category of drugs as sleeping pills is benzodiazepines. These drugs actually act as anti-anxiety agents and create anterograde amnesia, which makes it difficult to encode your memory for some time. So, the sleep that is produced by the sleeping pills in not similar to the normal sleep.

The research done by Daniel Kripke from the Scripps Clinic Viterbi Family Sleep Centre in La Jolla, California, says that 'patients who took sleeping pills died 4.6 times more often (on average) than patients who avoided sleeping pills, according to darksideofsleepingpill.com. The sleeping pills can be a reason for early death in people using it regularly. New cancer cells are thirty five percent more likely to be produced in chronic users of sleeping pills.

Some serious side-effects of sleeping pills are that they can cause allergic reactions, hallucination, facial swelling, memory lapse and complex behavior. The sleeping pills can also cause sleep walking, sleep eating and sleep driving. If you observe any such unusual behaviors, then immediately consult your doctor and explain him your symptoms.

Sleeping pills just don't produce sleep, but they do a lot more than that, which is not good for your health. They produce many unwanted effects and is a host for diseases like cancer, heart diseases and many other illnesses. The Great British Sleep Survey says that sleeping pills don't work in about forty percent of the poppers as they are not effective for chronic sleep problems and the patients suffer from lack of concentration and day time fatigue.

There are many other natural ways to have a good night sleep, which does not cause any kind of side effects. Then, why should you use these sleeping pills, which are packed with many serious threats to your health.