The effects of sleeping pills mainly include sedation, sleep induction and prolongation of sleep.
1. Sedation: For patients with obvious anxiety and fear, they can play a sedative role during the day to stabilize the patient’s anxiety and fear.
2. Sleep induction: For example, the benzodiazepines midazolam maleate and zolpidem tartrate and the non-benzodiazepine drug zaleplon can make insomnia patients fall asleep quickly, increase drowsiness and induce sleep.
3. Sleep prolongation: mainly benzodiazepine tranquilizers and sleeping pills, such as diazepam, lorazepam, oxazepam, alprazolam and zopiclone, and non-benzodiazepines, which can alleviate sleep disorders, such as early awakening and excessive dreaming, and can prolong sleep.
Patients with prolonged poor sleep should take sedative-hypnotic medications promptly under the supervision of a physician.