The side effects of taking sleeping pills include unusual behavior like sleep driving and life threatening allergic reactions warned the FDA. Sleep driving is defined as driving while not fully awake after ingestion of a sedative-hypnotic product, with no recollection of the event.
Sleep-driving made headlines last May when Kennedy crashed his car into a security barrier outside the U.S. Capitol after taking Ambien and a second drug, Phenergan, which also acts as a sedative and said he had no memory of the event.
FDA has asked manufacturers of 13 sleep drugs including Ambien and Lunesta to include the bizarre risks on their product labeling. It has also requested that manufacturers of sedative-hypnotic products develop Patient Medication Guides in an easy to understand language for the consumers about risks and advise them of potential precautions that can be taken and the recommendation to avoid ingesting alcohol and/or other central nervous system depressants. This could help the patients take the necessary precautions before taking these drugs.
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