New warning about the potential risk of sleeping pills

On Wednesday (March 14), the US Federal Food and Drug Administration FDA, issued new warnings about potential health risks when taking sleeping pills.

The FDA warns that common sleep aids can cause serious allergies and abnormal behavior for users. These unusual behaviors can be any activity in daily life from cooking, calling, dressing, to driving in the sleepy state.

In the US, in 2005 alone, doctors prescribed more than 45 million sleeping pills. TV ads that promise sleeping pills will have a quiet night's sleep.

However, Dr. Snadra Kweder of FDA, said there are many reports of sleepwalking driving, in which sleep users leave the bed and drive somewhere. Dr. Michael Cramer Bornemann of the Minnesota Regional Sleep Research Center said that when a driver is in a sleep state, both he and the other person are in danger.

The FDA will require pharmaceutical manufacturers that produce Lunesta, Ambien and 11 other sleeping pills to indicate possible side effects on the drug label.

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