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Can Sleeping Pills Be Given To Manage Aggressive Behavior After A Stroke?
A Down syndrome patient with acute ischemic stroke, diabetes, and stage one kidney disease keeps ripping out feeding tube. Tube is needed because of dysphasia after stroke. One month after CVA can sedatives or sleeping pills be prescribed if patient is becoming unmanageable and causing self harm?
Fri, 25 May 2018
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Generally sedating pills are not recommended. Many of them come with a black box warning about them increasing the risk for vascular problems. That being said in real life family members and physicians alike are continuously face with the issue of patients being difficult to manage and in many cases they are prescribed. So the answer to your question is that they can be used, but only when there isn't any alternative.
I hope things work out for the best.
I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.
Generally sedating pills are not recommended. Many of them come with a black box warning about them increasing the risk for vascular problems. That being said in real life family members and physicians alike are continuously face with the issue of patients being difficult to manage and in many cases they are prescribed. So the answer to your question is that they can be used, but only when there isn't any alternative.
I hope things work out for the best.
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