Are there any prescription sleep aids I can give my child? Really you have to be careful with those kinds of medications for babies and toddlers. Really you have to be careful with those kinds of medications...
Really you have to be careful with those kinds of medications for babies and toddlers. Certainly there are levels where you can have side effects to these medications. You get hangover type effects the next day. You can get paradoxical effects and some of the most popular ones are anti-histamines that are used and your cold medicines that put your kid to sleep. Each of those has the potential of hangover side effects the next day. They also have the potential to wear off, but the hypnotic affects from these medications isn't permanent. But if you use them over extended periods of time they won't work any more.
The other dangerous thing I would think too is what's the matter if you are giving a medication to somebody who is not a baby or child and is not sleeping so well. My first impression is what are we covering up? What's the real problem? Why isn't the child sleeping well? Are the parental expectations incorrect? I have a one month old now which sleeps all night but you know they are going to be awake mostly throughout the day and sleep more throughout the night, that's common. But they are still going to get up to be changed or fed. Is there a sleep phase? Is there obstructive sleep apnea? Do they have some other problem? Is there movement disorders you can have at night that keep you awake. And giving a sleep aid in a sense of a hypnotic agent is something that is truly putting a band aid on the problem. And it may be totally incorrect. So it's much better off if there is somebody not sleeping so well is, find out what the problem is.
