What if a patient with cerebral infarction stays awake all day and all night?

Cerebral infarction patients who do not sleep all day and all night should be treated according to the cause of the disease, accompanied by anxiety and depression, as prescribed by the doctor to give anti-anxiety or depression drugs, such as paroxetine, etc.; severe insomnia to give sedative-hypnotic drugs, such as diazepam, etc.; antipsychotic drugs, such as olanzapine and other related drugs.
1. Anxiety or depression: If the patient has obvious anxiety and depression, anti-anxiety or anti-depression drugs should be given as prescribed by the doctor, representative drugs include buspirone, fluoxetine, paroxetine, etc.
2. Severe insomnia: severe insomnia may be related to cerebral infarction affecting sleep rhythm, sedative hypnotic drugs can be given, such as diazepam, lorazepam, eszopiclone and other drugs for symptomatic treatment.
3. Mental illness: the prescription of sleeplessness accompanied by behavioral abnormalities, consider the possibility of mental illness, need to be under the guidance of specialists for antipsychotic drug therapy, such as olanzapine, clozapine and so on.
Cerebral infarction patients can not sleep all day, should be based on the patient’s specific condition of the doctor’s prescription treatment, do not blindly self-medication.