Insomnia has a high incidence in our country, and many people need to take sleeping pills for a long time to improve their sleep, but sleeping pills western medicine is a prescription drug, for insomniacs, you can not just take sleeping pills, sleeping pills should be taken under the guidance of a doctor. If you buy them from a pharmacy or change your doctor’s prescription to increase the dosage, you will experience dizziness, drowsiness, loss of concentration, memory loss, etc. If insomnia patients are combined with other diseases, the abuse of sleeping pills often leads to aggravation of the condition and can even be life-threatening in serious cases. The following cases are recommended to use sleeping pills with caution or need to be taken under the guidance of a doctor: 1, pregnant women should not take sleeping pills. Some sleeping pills may cause fetal malformations, and may also cause difficulties in breastfeeding, jaundice and drowsiness in newborns. 2.Lactating women. If sleeping pills are taken during breastfeeding, the components of sleeping pills may be transferred to breast milk, causing adverse effects on the newborn. If a mother takes sleeping pills during breastfeeding, she should avoid breastfeeding. 3, the elderly and frail. Because if the drug has a large residual during the day, there will be side effects such as dizziness and unstable walking, which may pose a risk to older, weaker people. 4.People with heart, liver and kidney disorders. Sleeping pills are mainly converted in the liver and eliminated by the kidneys. Patients with liver and kidney diseases should not take sleeping pills. 5, people with sleep breathing disorders. Sleeping pills can deepen central inhibition, so patients with obstructive airway disease or sleep apnea should not take sleeping pills. 6, acute closed-angle glaucoma and patients with myasthenia gravis. These patients take sleeping pills symptoms will deteriorate sharply. 7, after drinking alcohol should not take sleeping pills. Alcohol and sleeping pills have the same inhibitory effect on the central nervous system, do not use at the same time, so as not to cause damage to the central nervous system overinhibition. In addition, experts remind, sleeping pills for insomnia, although the effect is good, the safety range is also larger, but if more than the normal therapeutic dose or long-term use of the normal amount of treatment can form drug dependence (i.e. addiction). At present, the main drugs used clinically to treat insomnia are Valium, Librium, nitro Valium, norethindrone, methyl triazolyl chloride Valium and so on. In addition, there are also drugs such as Sleepone, Ambien, and Conduction. These drugs are subject to the action of drug metabolizing enzymes in the liver in the body. After the patient takes the drug, the drug enters the blood and the site of action, and plays a hypnotic role at a certain drug concentration, and then these drugs are destroyed by decomposition under the action of liver drug enzymes, and its effect disappears. If a patient often takes a certain sleeping pill, these drugs will promote the production of liver drug enzymes to increase, resulting in “drug tolerance”. In short, sleeping pills are prescription drugs and should be taken under the guidance of a doctor for insomniacs. If you buy them from a pharmacy or change your doctor’s prescription to increase the dosage, you will experience dizziness, drowsiness, decreased concentration, memory loss, etc. For patients with liver, kidney, heart disease and sleep apnea, asthma, taking sleeping pills may also cause greater danger. Therefore, experts warn that sleeping pills should not be taken casually. Long-term insomnia patients, can not rely entirely on sleeping pills, often require comprehensive treatment to play a better effect. Chinese medicine and acupuncture have a very good effect on insomnia, while basically no toxic side effects brought about by Western medicine, can make insomnia patients reduce or even get rid of the daily sleeping pills brought about by the trouble, insomnia patients can choose these methods of treatment.